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Matera's Sassi are carved from soft tufa limestone, and the city's creative life still runs through the hands of local makers — which is why its art and culture experiences feel less like demonstrations and more like time spent in someone's studio. You can shape the same stone the cave dwellings are cut from in the Matera: Tufa Stone Carving Workshop with a Local Craftsman, or learn the papier-mâché craft behind the city's famous float figures in the Matera: Paper Mache Workshop with Bruna Float Artisans. Pair either with the region's rustic cuisine and you have a day that is distinctly
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Matera's art scene is rooted in the Sassi themselves. Rather than museum visits, most experiences here are hands-on sessions led by working artisans — carving tufa stone, shaping papier-mâché float figures, making polymer clay jewellery, sewing, or quilling.
