Matera is a 2019 European Capital of Culture. On this trip, you’ll see the vast collection of caves and houses carved into the hillsides of our New World Wonder, Sassi di Matera. You’ll also visit the ...

Matera, Italy, is more than a picturesque destination—it’s a living record of human resilience and adaptation. Carved into limestone cliffs, its cave dwellings have been continuously inhabited for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning writer/podcaster, I've been to 100+ countries. Matera, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata, has been ...

You may well have a sense of déjà-vu when you enter Matera, a place that seems at once both truly exotic, oddly familiar and a little eerie. Spread over a valley in Basilicata, the town is stark, ...

European Capital of Culture status has shone a spotlight on Italy's oldest city, whose previous claims to fame were an image as a cinematic "New Jerusalem" but also its "shameful" slums. Matera, ...

Anyone from Jesus to James Bond has been seen in the Unesco heritage site now open for business after lockdown As audiences have come to expect with the James Bond franchise, the locations are almost ...

Long overlooked by tourists, the Italian cave town of Matera is having a moment, spurred by its selection as the 2019 European Capital of Culture, its recent designation as a UNESCO World Heritage ...

Roads and venues remain unbuilt as the southern Italian city struggles to be the 2019 capital of culture When the southern Italian city of Matera found out it had been selected as the 2019 European ...

The stone walls of Matera do not whisper history—they press it into the air. The scent of damp limestone still clings to cave ceilings carved thousands of years ago, while narrow passages funnel light ...