Visit Matera: 5 Things to do in Luke cities
GRAND TOUR BLOG | 23 November 2018

Visit Matera: 5 Things to do in Luke cities

Visit Matera: 5 Things to do in Luke cities

Visit Matera: 5 Things to do in Luke's second city Travel you eat.

Per visit Matera and fully enjoy the atmosphere we need at least a couple of days, but if you have little time available there are some things that absolutely must be done.

1. Enjoying the view from Piazzetta Pascoli.

The scenario that opens at the bottom of this square is something simply wonderful: the Stones show in all their uniqueness.

2. Get lost in the alleys.

Go down through the alleys, slip between the Sassi and enjoy every view is the second thing you need to do in Matera: be guided by instinct, aimlessly, Matera takes visitors in a unique and unrepeatable way. Among the Sassi, indeed, It seems to be in a crib.

3. Visit a Cave House.

This is really the only way to understand what he meant, once, live within Sassi. The visit to the Casa Grotta allows you to empathize with the families that shared everything, In the true sense of the word, in a confined space and unhealthy. Here it seems to echo the words of the book "Christ Stopped at Eboli"Wherein said Luisa Levi

“[…] Inside these blacks holes in the walls of earth I saw the beds, the miserable furnishings, rags lying. On the floor they were lying dogs, the sheep, the goats, pigs.

Each family usually has one of those caves for habitation and there they sleep all together, men, women, children, beasts. Children there was endless ... naked or covered with rags. I saw the children sitting in the doorway of the houses, in the dirt, the sun was hot, with half-closed eyes and red and swollen eyelids.

It was trachoma.

I knew there was down here: but see it as well in filth and misery is another thing. […]”.

In Matera you can visit two cave houses: the Casa Grotta di Vico Solitario it is to House Cave Casalnuovo.

4. Getting into some of the hundreds of Matera Churches.

The Churches are lots of Matera: only those cave are more than 150!

Among the most beautiful are the Cathedral, the Church of San Pietro Caveoso e Rock church of Our Lady of Virtues and San Nicola dei Greci.

5. Please visit at least one museum.

The city of Matera is home to some interesting museums:

  • the Museo Nazionale Ridola, dedicated to the history of the city since the time of the Neolithic;
  • the Musma, museum dedicated to sculpture and housed in a cave;
  • the National Museum of Medieval and Modern Art of Basilicata.

What to eat in Matera: tradition in the kitchen

Visit Matera: 5 Things to do in Luke cities

A visit Matera: 5 Things to do in Luke cities plus the sixth. The strength of Matera traditions does not end in the history of its historical center, but finds himself at the table. Visit Matera, indeed, means also enjoy the delicacies Lucan. The flavors run from caciocavallo, a cialledda (a slice of dry bread soaked with water, chopped and accompanied by tomatoes, onion and pepperoni, possibly cruschi), passing through the orecchiette with broccoli dusted with dry crust of Bread of Matera, until the sporcamuss, a typical dessert made up of puff pastry filled with custard. On the work of the city tables you find all the energy you breathe in its narrow streets.

Author: Selene Scinicariello

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