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Matera, Basilicata, Italy
Basilicata suddenly gained international fame when Mel Gibson lately directed the movie “The Passion of the Christ) in Matera (regional capital city), in the extraordinary old area of the Sassi di Matera (meaning Stones of Matera). Matera is a city (and province) in the Basilicata region of Italy....
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Craco, Basilicata, Italy
Craco is a commune and medieval village located in the Region of Basilicata and the Province of Matera (about 25 miles inland from the Gulf of Taranto at the instep of the “boot” of Italy). The medieval village of Craco is typical of the hill towns of the region with mildly undulating shapes an...
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Caves of Sassi, Matera, Basilicata, Italy
With their lack of sanitation and high infant mortality the dwellings in the Sassi became a source of national shame, especially after Carlo Levi wrote about them in Christ Stopped at Eboli, a denunciation of the poverty and misery he had found in pre-war southern Italy. Come the 1950s, the Materaí...
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