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Basilicata rewards travellers who go looking for the past: the Sassi of Matera are a UNESCO-listed cave city where people lived until the 1950s, and the surrounding hills hide rock churches, abandoned villages and Greek-influenced towns. Most day trips here are built around Matera, and the strongest options pair it with a knowledgeable local guide, such as the Bari: Matera Day Trip with Minivan and Local Guide or the Matera Half-Day Guided Tour from Bari: Sassi & Local Crafts, which adds the region's living craft traditions to the archaeological story.
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Basilicata's history is unusually tangible. Matera's Sassi are inhabited cave dwellings carved into the rock, with rock-hewn churches and frescoes nearby, so you are walking through the evidence rather than reading about it. Good tours use local guides who explain the cave-dwelling era, the postwar evacuation and the region's Greek and Norman.
