Trek to Torrente Gravina & Rupestrian Churches of Murgia Park, Matera

Highlights

• Rupestrian Churches Park
• Gravina Stream
• Rupestrian Churches

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Parco della Murgia Materana

   2h 35min

   Since 2007, the Regional Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera has also been declared a World Heritage Site. It is a large rocky hilly area marked by deep karst fissures called: "Gravine". The show that appears before the eyes is truly breathtaking, since the whole inhabited area of the Sassi appears in all its splendor beyond the ravine. During this historical-naturalistic walk, the visitor will be able to follow the path of man: from the Palaeolithic settlements to the entrenched Neolithic villages of "Murgia Timone", from the pastoral communities of the Middle Ages to the rock settlements of the Greek-Byzantine hermitic communities that plateau they founded monasteries, graduations and Rock Churches. Along the route of this guided trek you reach the bottom of the valley of the Gravina torrent.

2. 2

   Matera

   10min

   Our Lady of Monteverde Rock Church

Before you go

Location