landscape of contrasts between forests, rolling hills, country and warm colored patches of olive groves and pastures burned by the sun; here Matera, a city that looks, with its charming maze of "Sassi" on the precipice carved by the Gravina torrent .
addition, the Murgia of Matera, the so-called garden of stone barns and churches carved into the rock, the last stretch of Basilicata near the border of Puglia.
The Stones, giving celebrities in Matera, an urban complex are highly original, with dwellings carved into the rock, growing on the edge and sides of a deep ravine. are divided into two areas: Bari Sasso Sasso Caveoso in the north and south.
The Stones are derived from the first houses of the tribes that settled on both sides of the Gravina since Neolithic times. Within this abyss
steep, densely grafted half and half out of houses into the rock, lived in extreme poverty as a population.
In the sixties of last century were in large part still inhabited. Carlo Levi denounced the shame of cave-houses now no longer relevant to modern needs, above all, sanitary.
government welfare expenditure were implemented in the building, near the city, a great neighborhood, Martella, where to transfer all the inhabitants of the Sassi. Without one, the houses of the Sassi today are under the protection of UNESCO World Heritage Site .
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