Time should tick slowly in a city like Matera. Claimed as the third-oldest continually inhabited settlement in the world (after Aleppo and Jericho), the southern Italian city has been home to someone ...
A view of the Sassi di Matera, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993. Paul Jebara It’s hard to believe that a little more than 50 years ago, Matera was the “shame of Italy,” its cave-dwelling ...
European Capital of Culture status has shone a spotlight on Italy's oldest city, whose previous claims to fame were an image as a cinematic "New Jerusalem" but also its "shameful" slums. Matera, ...