History & culture · Matera
Matera History & Culture Food & Drink Tours
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About Matera
Matera's Sassi cave dwellings are not just a backdrop — they are the setting where Lucanian cooking, ancient wine cellars and centuries of peasant history are still lived. You can roll pasta by hand inside a carved tufa wine cellar on the Matera: Farmer's Pasta Class in an Ancient Wine Cellar in the Sassi, or taste local wines and produce in the very caves that once housed Matera's families on the Matera: Local Food & Wine Tasting in Ancient Sassi Caves.
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In Matera the food and the history are the same story. Tours take place inside the Sassi, the cave dwellings and rock churches that made the city a UNESCO site, so you eat in the same tufa-carved spaces where families once lived and worked.
