Matera guide - Matera Guided Tours

A TIMELESS PLACE, SUSPENDED IN HISTORY …
MATERA IS A JOURNEY THROUGH THE MILLENARY EVENT OF HUMANITY, A LIVE TESTIMONY OF AN ANCIENT CIVILIZATION PERPETUATED TO OUR DAYS

matera GUIDED TOURS

Sassi of Matera

2 h • Walking Tour

Discovering the ancient tuffa districts.

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Historic Center of Matera

2 h • Walking Tour

Getting lost among squares and alleys.

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Park of the Murgia

3 h • Walking Tour

Immersed in nature a few steps from the city center.

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Museums of Matera

3 h • Cultural Tour

Discover the places of culture and city history.

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Tasting Matera

3 h • Tasting Tour

Getting to know the city and its cooking traditions.

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“Among the cities where I’ve been, Matera is the one that smiles to me more, that I still see better though a veil of poetry and melancholy.”
Giovanni Pascoli

“Anybody sees Matera, inevitably gets amazed: its aching beauty is so expressive and touching.” – Carlo Levi

“Shooting in Matera give a movie a particular sense of history, nothing is more authentic than Matera, its dwellings and its street.”
Mel Gibson

“Caves, stone buildings, gardens, channels and cisterns, alleys and neighborhoods: an urban organization based on spaces and architectures of water, light and wind”
Pietro Laureano

“Matera is a beautiful, large and very populated city””
Al Idrisi, Roger II’s geographer

“Gorgeous city, that inspired to me a song. I was hot by the sensation to stay in a timeless place, it seemed to be 3 thousand years ago.”
Steven Tyler, Aerosmith

“This is an extraordinary and magical city!”
Morgan Freeman

what people I accompanied in matera say about me

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Latest news

Basilicata, the landascape of history that enhances cinema

Apr 1 2021 | Tales of guide, What's on Matera

"Cultural landscape". With this definition, used on that occasion for the first time, Matera was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO on December 9, 1993 in Cartagena, Colombia: it was thus certified that the Sassi and the Murgia Park represent a unique territory,...