4928 x 3264 px | 41,7 x 27,6 cm | 16,4 x 10,9 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
27 marzo 2014
Ubicazione:
Matera, Basilicata, southern Italy
Altre informazioni:
The town of Matera is famed as the site of the book "Christ stopped at Eboli" by Carlo Levi.The story is one of a run-down, broken city that typified the lot of southern Italy as it was in those days (the 1930s, - 50s. Interestingly it was one of the first city's that ever rose up against Nazi Germany in the second WW). Now it has been re-juvenated by UNESCO who by 1993 took it under its wings. Once known as the subterranean city, its people were known as 'the Sassi', they followed a group of churches called 'the Rupestrians'. The town lies in a small canyon by the river Gravina. The Sassi created for themselves homes from the calcerous rocks which were caves, often one on top of the other. Today the city is a tourist attraction with many people who either want the experience of cave living (they have been re-discovered and made comfortable), and areas full of bars and eating houses.
