Matera · Basilicata
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About Matera
Matera's drama isn't only in its stone alleys — it's in the ravine country that surrounds them, where the Sassi drop into the Gravina gorge and the Murgia plateau opens into rupestrian churches, caves and open sky. A certified guide can take you across the Tibetan bridge on the Matera: Sassi, Murgia & Tibetan Bridge Trekking with Certified Guide, while the Matera Guided Sunset Tour: Murgia Timone & Belvedere with Transfer shows the same landscape turning gold at dusk. Beyond the city, the Dolomiti Lucane and the ridge trails between Castelmezzano and Pietrapertosa push the terrain into
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In Matera the outdoors is archaeology and landscape at once. Trails in the Murgia Materana Park cross a ravine dotted with rupestrian churches and cave dwellings, so a hike here is also a walk through millennia of human use of the land.
