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Facing north-west, Sasso Barisano, is rich in decorated portals that hide its subterranean heart. Sasso Caveoso, facing south, is like a roman theatre with its cave dwellings disposed on terraces.

It’s probably named after its caves and after classical theatres. At the center you will find the Civita, a rocky hill separating the two Sassi and hosting the Cathedral. The Sassi and the Civita constitute the old urban landscape of Matera.

Though granting safety for its inhabitants, this site provided great difficulties in the water provision. Since early times, its inhabitants concentrated their efforts in digging water cysterns and channelling systems.

These humble digging techniques acquired an inconceivable charm during the centuries.

The prehistoric men, that carved channels and dag deep cysterns and shared their resources in common spaces like neighbourhoods, appear tu us as geniuses. All this is Matera’s enchanting beauty.

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]]> http://casadellartistamatera.it/en/the-sassi/feed/ 0 Suggestions for a route in the Sassi http://casadellartistamatera.it/en/suggestions-for-a-route-in-the-sassi/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=suggestions-for-a-route-in-the-sassi http://casadellartistamatera.it/en/suggestions-for-a-route-in-the-sassi/#respond Mon, 20 Mar 2017 22:41:19 +0000 http://casadellartistamatera.it/?p=1934 In the Sasso Barisano we recommend the following sites: The Convento of Sant’Agostino, was built in 1593 upon the old rupestrian Crypt of St. Julian (XII cen.) Chiesa di San Pietro Barisana rock hewn church with built facade and bell tower. Madonna delle Virtù and San Nicola dei Greci are two rock hewn churches upon […]

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The Convento of Sant’Agostino, was built in 1593 upon the old rupestrian Crypt of St. Julian (XII cen.)

Chiesa di San Pietro Barisana rock hewn church with built facade and bell tower.

Madonna delle Virtù and San Nicola dei Greci are two rock hewn churches upon each other. Important exhibitions are organized throughout the year.

Chiesa di San Pietro Caveoso, built in 1218, it’s one of the most representative places in the town. Inside, a lot of 1600 and 1700 frescoes Stucchi and polyptics can be admired.

Casa grotta di Vico Solitario, is a reproduction of an old farmers’ house and the life forms in it. Next to it an ice cysters (Neviera) and the small rock church of San Pietro in Monterrone;

Santa Maria di Idris on the top of a big cliff, with the church of San Giovanni in Monterrone at its rear.

Santa Lucia alle Malve, an old church once house to a monks community; on its roof an ancient necropolis can be visited.

Convicinio di S. Antonio, a neighbourhood formed by 4 rock-hewn curches (San Primo, Sant’Eligio, San Donato e Sant’Antonio);

Santa Maria de Armenis is another old benedictine settlement. Site for the brotherhood of S.Francesco da Paola up to 1774.This church consists of one central nave with barrel vault and a lowered arch dividing the aula from the presbytery.

Bruno Buozzi you will find on your right two palombari (cysterns for water collection).

Once at the top of Via Bruno Buozzi uphill, turn right and you will reach the boulevard of Via Ridola where you can find good restaurants where to spend the night.

Walking along Via Ridola, you will get to P.zza Vittorio Veneto, where you can find a set of underground spaces and the so called Palombaro Lungo, a huge cistern which could contain about 5 mln liters water. Guided tours in English available at 10.30 a.m. /12.00 a.m / 3.30 p.m. / 5.00 p.m. / 6.30 p.m.

Opposite the Sassi there is the Parco della Murgia Materana with its plentiful caves and its some 150 rupestrian churches. It is also possible to reach it through walking paths. The two sides of the ravine are linked by a wooden bribge.

At about 10 Km outside the town there is the Cripta del peccato Originale with an extraordinary set of frescoes depicting the Old and New Testament. Booking needed.

In Recinto Cavone 9, at about 100 mt from the Cathedral, there is Casa Noha, in which a virtual tour into the thousands-year-old history of the town is offered. Opening times: April – October: 9 a.m.- 4 p.m.; November – March 10 a.m. – 4.30 p.m.

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]]> http://casadellartistamatera.it/en/suggestions-for-a-route-in-the-sassi/feed/ 0 Madonna della Bruna http://casadellartistamatera.it/en/madonna-della-bruna-eng/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=madonna-della-bruna-eng http://casadellartistamatera.it/en/madonna-della-bruna-eng/#respond Mon, 20 Mar 2017 22:22:29 +0000 http://casadellartistamatera.it/?p=1926   This centuries-old festival begins early in the morning with the Shepherds’ Procession (“Processione dei Pastori”), during which, the people awake at dawn to greet the Picture of the Virgin (“Quadro della Vergine”) with carols and fireworks. As per tradition, in the morning of the 2nd July the statues of the Madonna is brought into […]

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This centuries-old festival begins early in the morning with the Shepherds’ Procession (“Processione dei Pastori”), during which, the people awake at dawn to greet the Picture of the Virgin (“Quadro della Vergine”) with carols and fireworks.

As per tradition, in the morning of the 2nd July the statues of the Madonna is brought into the church of Rione Piccianello to be brought in procession on a celebrative chariot. The statues will be deposited into the Cathedral after three laps in Piazza Duomo.

The papièr-mâché chariot is finally driven back into the main square under the protection of knights. The final act of the festival is the destruction of the chariot.

Late at night a fireworks show takes place in the unique scenario of the Sassi. Next year a new Cahariot will be created for the citizens’ joy.

There are three legends about this festival.

The first is about a girl who asked a farmer to bring her into the town. At the gates of the town, the farmer saw the girl becoming a statue.

The Virgin greeted the farmer whispering him her will. She wanted to enter the town on a decorated chariot every year.

The second legend maintains that the destruction of the chariot is a simulation of the attacks of the saracens to the town.

The third belongs to the 16th century, when Matera was governed by the mean Count of Trqamontano, who promised a new chariot every year. It is said that the population destroyed the chariot to oblige the Count to build a new one.

Materan people believe that the Madonna della Bruna is named after the brown colour of her hair, but it has been discovered, after years of restoration, that the Madonna was fair-haired.

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“Opposite us there was just a grey barren mount. No cultivations, no trees, just earth and stones beaten by the sun. At the bottom a poor stream, Gravina, whose water seemed as stuck into the stones.The atmosphere was sad and the form of that ravine was strange. It looked like two funnels next to each other, separated by a small cliff and joint at the bottom. From there you could see a white church, Santa Maria De Idris, thrust into the earth.

These two upside down cones were just like I imagined Dante’s Inferno at school.
From the rocky walls I saw the tables, the beds, the furnishings and the hanging rags. Dogs, sheep, goats and pigs were lying on the ground. Each family owns a cave and they sleep along with their animals. So live 20000 people.”

Da “Cristo si è fermato ad Eboli”, Carlo Levi Torino 1945

 

 

 

 

« It’s a very strange town, sat on three valleys with churches at the top and houses hanging under them…By night it resembles a starry sky.»
(Giovan Battista Pacichelli)

……. Matera’s aching beauty is so straightforward that anyone can be struck by it..
( Carlo Levi, 1952 )


Some parts of the townare two thousand years old and resemble Jewish. We relied a lot on the view you had there. The first time I saw Matera, I lost my head because it was simply perfect.

( Mel Gibson, 2003)

It’s a variation of lights and shadows, a pictoresque game of colours, It’s a maze of streets, walls, arches, windows, chimneys, balconies, shelves, loggias, where no symmetry, no lines, no order can be found.  On this great scene life unfolds. 

( Carmelo Colamonico, 1927 )

“…if you go down one of those long stairs cut into the sandstone, you’ll need more than a day or two  to satisfy your curiosity.”

( Giuseppe Isnardi, 1953 )

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I found the cosmic root of humanity in Matera.The echo of its ravines is the same since man settled here… 
In the faces of men on the streets you can guess a noble past.
( Josè Ortega )

 

 

 

“Seen through a veil of poetry and melancholy, Matera is the most smiling of the towns I have visited” ( Giovanni Pascoli, 1884 )


Due to the exhaltation of reading the Gospels, I made the decision to make a film about them. Having put aside Palestrine, because its territory was unrecognizable by now, the place I was searching for was Matera, a place where a true, ferociously ancient sun shines.

( Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1963 )

“Matera is an extraordinary town: you feel like leaning on an open inhabited underground, forming a town.
This gathering of half cave-dwellers, in which life has been unfolding since prehistory, is unique in Europe and one of the most astonishing in Italy.”.

( Guido Piovene, 1957 )

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« It’s a very strange town, sat on three valleys with churches at the top and houses hanging under them…By night it resembles a starry sky. »

(Giovan Battista Pacichelli, Il Regno di Napoli in Prospettiva).

 

The timeless landscape and its incomparable forms, colors and visions make Matera a unique place in the world, World Heritage Site of UNESCO since 1993 and European Capital of Culture 2019.

On his way back home, the visitor has a new light in his eyes. The white stones of the small alleys, the blue sky, the chancing colour of the walls behind which the history of the world lives.

The third oldest town in the world, Matera has been uninterruptedly inhabited since the Paleolithic Age. Its name’s origins have not been established yet.

It could either have been named after the Roman Consul Metello or after the initials of the two old seaside towns Metapontum and Heraclea.

The oldest settlement si the Civita, that dominates the two valleys of Sasso Barisano and Sasso Caveoso.

The new wooden bridge built to link both sides of a deep ravine links the “Sassi” to the Parco della Murgia Materana.

The sassi are a big maze of houses, culverts, churches and caves dug upon each other, where the streets often coincide with the roof of dwellings underneath.

One of these rural cave houses is the Casa Grotta Vico Solitario, whose spaces and furniture faithfully reproduce life in the satti till the sixties.After having been abandoned in the 60s, the Sassi have been undergoing a continuous process of renovation and requalification.

IIn 1993 Matera became the first town in Southern Italy to be added to the “World Heritage List” of Unesco. From the belvedere in Piazzetta Pascoli, you will be able to admire the incredible landscape of the Sassi and the Murgia, and you will understand the reason why the town has been chosen as a background for several movies. The splendid panorama of Parco della Murgia Materana and the wonderful rupestrian Churches of Santa Maria de Idris, San Giovanni in Monterrone or the Cathedral will open in front of you.

From 1663 to 1806 Matera was capital of the Giustizierato di Basilicata in the Reign of Naples. Nowadays it is a small town (60.500 inhabitants), the second town of the region for population.

Thanks to the sacrifice of its population during the second World War Matera has been awarded the Silver Medal to Military Valour.

In 1952 a national law decided the evacuation of the Sassi and authorized the construction of new housing units in the new town, where more than 20.000 people went to live.

In 1986 a new national law funded the restoration of the old Sassi, that had been abandoned 30 years before.

Finally, the Sassi were declared World Heritage Site by the Unesco, whereas on 17th October 2014 it was nominated European Captal of Culture 2019.

 

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