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 ...
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, ...
Matera is the world’s third-longest continuously inhabited human settlement and the 2019 European Capital of Culture. The city is known for its winding sassi, caves and grottoes carved out of ...