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The Sassi

Cave dwellings inhabited for nine thousand years, evacuated in 1952 as a national disgrace and now UNESCO-listed.

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The Sassi is in Matera, and this is Matera — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 730 km across and 260 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. The full map →

Give it half a day · Open year-round · 40.666°N, 16.611°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

Frecciarossa and Italo make Milan–Rome three hours and compete on price. All of Italy →

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Matera · The South & the Islands · Italy

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Those are the three fields that go stale fastest and the three you are most damaged by being wrong about, so this site does not carry them at all rather than carrying an unverified version. Check the operator or the municipality on the day. The estimate of how long to give it, and the season, are editorial judgements and are usually stable.

Other places in Matera

Santa Maria de Idris

A rock church cut into a spur above the ravine, frescoed inside and reached by steps.

Church

The record

What this atlas holds about The Sassi, and nothing it does not.

Kind
Quarter
Give it
half a day
Season
Open year-round
Where
40.666°N, 16.611°E
In
Matera