by GuidaMatera | Oct 6 2022 | Tales of guide
A land to discover. And all to live. It is with this spirit that my colleague Angela Milici of A Spasso in Basilicata and I led the “Esperienza Basilicata” tour from 25 to 29 September. For five days we took 15 bloggers from Calabria, Campania, Lazio, Abruzzo,...
by GuidaMatera | 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...
by GuidaMatera | Mar 8 2021 | What's on Matera, Tales of guide
He had a short but intense life: 30 years of love for his land and civic passion. Rocco Scotellaro (simply Rocchino for everyone in his hometown Tricarico) is perhaps the most shining example of “lucanità” in modern times. Poet, mayor of his country, but above all a...
by GuidaMatera | Oct 11 2019 | Tales of guide
At the first telephone contact it had seemed one of the many requests for availability that I receive daily. “Some friends who had you as a guide arecommended us to call you, we would like to have you as a guide in Matera for a full day. We are 3 friends from...
by GuidaMatera | Nov 8 2018 | Tales of guide
Before tour guide was my full day job, I practiced journalism for years. They are two professions that have so much in common: in the first case we write, in the other we speak but the goal is the same, to communicate. And the fuel that feeds them is the same:...
by GuidaMatera | Sep 25 2018 | Tales of guide
I often give tours to families with small children, sometimes even just a few months old. In those cases my work becomes more complicated and more challenging to: it is not easy to keep the attention for several hours or at least keep the liveliness of the little...
