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Matera After Dark: The Cave City After the Tour Buses Leave

Matera at night -- the Sassi cave city illuminated against the Gravina gorge -- offers one of the most dramatic nocturnal urban landscapes in southern…

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Matera Before the Crowds: The Ancient City at Dawn

The ancient cave city of Matera — inhabited continuously for 9,000 years, abandoned in shame in the 1950s, and resurrected as a European Capital of…

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