Matera Mystica Audio Tour in the Sassi between Mysteries and Spirituality

Itinerary

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   Belvedere Luigi Guerricchio between panoramic views and mindfulness meditation. This belvedere is named after Luigi Guerricchio, an artist deeply linked to Matera, who was able to capture its lights, shadows and geometries in his paintings. And looking at the view from this point, you can see why: what you have ...

   10 min
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   Casa Grotta del Casalnuovo and rural life in the Sassi. This cave house is a faithful testimony of how people lived in the Sassi until the 1950s, before displacement. A single room, carved into the rock, housed ...

   5 min
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   Cathedral of Matera between Romanesque art, faith and local traditions. The cathedral was built between 1230 and 1270, in the middle of medieval times, on one of the highest points of the city, symbolically separating the Sasso Caveoso from the Sasso Barisano. Its position is not accidental : it represents a center ...

   10 min
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   Church of Our Lady of Virtues between rock art and spirituality. Its origins date back to the medieval period, between the 10th and 12th centuries, when Matera was crossed by Eastern and Western monastic communities. This cave complex is not a single church, but ...

   10 min
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   Church of San Giovanni in Monterrone and architecture in negative. This rock church dates back to the 11th-12th centuries, in the middle of medieval times, when Matera was a very active monastic and spiritual center. The name u201cMonterroneu201d recalls the great ...

   10 min
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   Church of San Pietro Barisano between history, catacombs and mysteries. The origins of the church date back to the twelfth century, although the current appearance is the result of enlargements and transformations that took place especially in the sixteenth century. The name u201cBarisanou201d seems to derive from a ...

   10 min
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   Church of San Pietro Caveoso between art, spirituality and legends. This church has its roots in the thirteenth century, in a time when Matera was a tangle of simple spirituality and daily life. The name u201cCaveosou201d comes from the cavities carved into the rock, and this already tells ...

   10 min
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   Church of Santa Lucia alle Malve and the charm of rock churches. This rock church is considered one of the oldest of the Sassi complex, with origins dating back to at least the 8th-9th centuries. It was inhabited by a community of ...

   10 min
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   Church of Santa Maria de Idris between rock, faith and iconic views. This church is excavated and built on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Sassi, a strategic and symbolic point. The name u201cIdrisu201d has uncertain and fascinating origins: some connect it to the Greek term for u201cwateru201d, others to a figure ...

   10 min
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    Convicinio of St. Anthony between sacred caves and hidden mysteries. This cave complex, composed of several rooms carved into the rock and communicating with each other, dates back to the Middle Ages. The term u201cConviciniou201d indicates a set of shared, close, intertwined spaces. It is therefore not a single church, but a ...

    10 min
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    Long diver between underground engineering and water mysteries. l Palombaro Lungo is a giant underground cistern, built between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, although the water collection system in Matera has much older origins. This space, carved into the rock below Piazza Vittorio Veneto, is one of the most extraordinary examples of ...

    10 min
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    Piazza Duomo between views and guided meditation in the Sassi of Matera. This square was born in the thirteenth century together with the construction of the nearby Cathedral of Matera, between 1230 and 1270. This hill was chosen to create a spiritual center visible from every point of the Sassi, a place that could symbolically unite the ...

    10 min
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    Piazza San Pietro Caveoso between history, mystery and cinema. In front of you is the Sasso Caveoso, one of the oldest cores of the city. This landscape is not just architecture: it is the result of thousands of years of human life. The caves you see, the houses carved into the rock, tell a story ...

    10 min
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    Piazza Vittorio Veneto and the Feast of Bruna with assault on the cart. You are in the beating heart of Matera, in Piazza Vittorio Veneto. At first glance it may seem like an elegant and tidy square... But beneath your feet lies a world, and around you flows a...

    10 min
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    Rione Casalnuovo authentic between medieval alleys and secret stories. Moving a few steps away from the beaten track, you enter a place that still preserves the truest soul of the Sassi. The houses carved into the rock, the narrow alleys, the irregular staircases: everything tells a story ...

    15 min
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    Malve district between ancient history, rock architecture and mystery. You are surrounded by one of the oldest and most authentic cores of the Sassi of Matera: the Malve district. Here the city seems to whisper, more than talk. Every stone, every opening in the rock, holds a ...

    15 min
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    Casalnuovo staircase between medieval history and authentic routes. This staircase has its origins in the Middle Ages, between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, when Matera developed completely adapting to the morphology of the rock. In a territory where it was not possible to build linear roads, vertical paths were born such as ...

    15 min
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    Via Muro between hidden views and cinematic glimpses. The name u201cMurou201d recalls the original function of this route: a margin, a boundary line between the inhabited part and the void of the Gravina. Walking, you have the feeling of being ...

    15 min
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    Close to Pozzo and community life in the Sassi of Matera. The u201cneighborhoodu201d was the heart of social life in the Sassi. Here the houses were not isolated, but overlooked a common space, often organized around a ...

    15 min
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    Vico Solitario and life in the Sassi between traditions and legends. This small alley, set in the Sasso Caveoso, is one of the truest examples of life in the Sassi until the mid-twentieth century. Here the dwellings were not simple houses, but spaces shared between people and animals, often in ...

    15 min