How to Get to Matera: All Transport Options
A practical guide to reaching Matera by plane, train, car and bus. Updated times, frequencies and costs to plan your trip to the city of the Sassi without surprises.
Travel guide to Matera
Everything you need to visit Matera: accommodation, itineraries, food and transport.
Practical guides
Two Days in Matera: Descending into the World's Oldest City
A two-day itinerary through Matera's UNESCO Sassi, rock-hewn churches, breathtaking viewpoints and Lucanian flavours. Why the City of Stones deserves far more than a day trip.
Where to Stay in Matera: Sleeping in Stone Among the Sassi and the Murgia
A complete guide to Matera's accommodation: from cave-hotels carved in tufa to noble palazzi, rupestrian B&Bs to Murgia farmhouses. Where, when, and how to choose.
Where to Eat in Matera: Bread, Stone and Lucanian Flavours
Matera's cuisine is born from stone and necessity: IGP bread, cruschi peppers, crapiata and lamb. A guide to the authentic flavours of Basilicata.
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Articles about Matera
Matera in February: the Sassi without crowds, tufa stone in winter and the cave churches
Matera in high season is gridlocked. In February the Sassi return to being what they have always been: a city carved fro…
The Cammino Materano: The Sassi and the Ravines of Basilicata on Foot
A 260 km route through the most ancient Basilicata, among rock-carved ravines, cave churches and absolute southern silen…
New Year's Eve Off the Beaten Path — Borghi Where You Can Toast in Peace
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September in the South — When the Mediterranean Belongs to You Alone
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Where to Go in Italy in January — 10 Destinations with No One Around
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The Lucanian Ionian Coast: Metaponto, Nova Siri and the Forgotten Beaches
Between the ruins of Magna Graecia and nearly deserted golden sand beaches, Basilicata's Ionian coast is the perfect alt…
Castelmezzano and Pietrapertosa: The Lucanian Dolomites Between the Angel's Flight and Secret Trails
Two borghi nestled among sandstone pinnacles in the Lucanian Dolomites offer vertiginous panoramas, the famous Angel's F…
Craco: The Ghost Town Suspended in Time
Perched on a clay hillside in the heart of Basilicata, Craco is an abandoned borgo that recounts centuries of history th…
Craco: Inside Basilicata's Most Famous Ghost Town
A guide to visiting Craco, the Lucanian ghost town perched above the calanchi badlands and beloved by filmmakers. Guided…
Via Francigena del Sud: Walking Through Puglia and Basilicata to the End of Italy
The Via Francigena del Sud crosses Puglia and Basilicata across 400km of masserie, ancient drove roads and cave churches…
The Cammino Materano: Walking Through Stone and Silence to Matera
The Cammino Materano links Bari to Matera across 170km of ravines, cave churches, abandoned masserie and the lunar lands…
Tursi and the Rabatana: the Arab Quarter Suspended over the Calanchi
Tursi hides the Rabatana, an ancient Arab quarter perched on a spur above the Lucanian calanchi: a journey through time …