My beautiful profession let me accompany every day travellers from all over the world to discover the extraordinary beauty of my land. But I myself am a traveler. Who said that leaving is a bit 'to die? Instead it is reborn every time: travel is passion, travel is...
Lights, sounds, colors … the magic of Christmas in Matera
My childhood memories have faded by now. But in my heart the emotion is still alive. That use to be a big event in the Event: the magical atmosphere of Christmas sublimated from the Living Nativity in the Sassi. That returned to relive at least for one day. In the...
Around the world in a month? In October in Matera you can
When I was a child I was kidnapped, like many kids, from the pages of Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne. Then, when I was older, many times I sang and danced to the exicitng notes of Sweet dreams by Eurythmics "... I travel the world and the seven seas,...
September 21st: that desire for redempmtion that has made the history of Matera
Vincenzo Luisi was just 16 years old. He was a lively and enterprising boy. Perhaps "too much" for his young age. He was employed by the prefecture and in the afternoon of September 21, 1943 was at his workplace when he heard repeated gunshots coming from outside, he...
Matera – Munich of Bavaria, guided roundtrip.
There must be an invisible thread that connects Matera to Munich of Bavaria. And the guides of the two cities. Do you remember the story of Anita Bestler, known three years ago on vacation with my family in Sicily? We wanted to visit Palermo, a quick search on the Net...
When the Crib at Matera was alive…
They made a movie about that, among the many filmed in that amazing natural scenery in the past 60 years. "The Nativity Story" was filmed there in 2006 by Catherine Hardwicke to tell the Advent just as it's described in the Gospels. Nothing better for the American...