Ever heard of a city older than Rome that’s still very much alive? Welcome to Matera. Look down. Those glowing stone homes carved into the cliffs. People have lived here for over 9,000 years. At night ...

Five years ago I spent a three days in the Basilicata town called of Matera, called “la città sotterranea” ("the underground city"), a slightly eerie place where many of hillside cave dwellings dating ...

Soar over Basilicata, where the ancient cave city of Matera, the dramatic peaks of the Lucanian Dolomites, and the unspoiled ...

On my first morning in Matera, I was awoken by an earth-shattering chorus of fireworks. I had arrived, by accident, on the day of this ancient city’s most important religious festival, the Festa della ...

In the remote Italian province known for its extraordinary subterranean architecture, the long-neglected city of Matera has stepped out of the shadows to be named European Capital of Culture The city ...

The journey, not the destination, is the point of "Basilicata Coast to Coast," thesp Rocco Papaleo's genial helming debut concerning a motley foursome walking across the south Italian province of ...