Museo Di Palazzo Lanfranchi

The Tour of the two Sassi starts with a historical-architectural and anthropological introduction to the Sassi of Matera carried out in Piazzetta Pascoli. The guide will also illustrate the history of Palazzo Lanfranchi which dominates the small square.

15 minutes

Piazza Vittorio Veneto

During the walk on the city plan, you come across two Baroque style churches, the Church of Purgatory and the Church of San Francesco d'Assisi. Continuing along Via delle Beccherie, the city's ancient commercial corridor, you find yourself in Piazza Vittorio Veneto. From here, after having appreciated the nineteenth-century Ferdinand fountain, commissioned by the King of the Two Sicilies Ferdinand II, and the panorama of the Sasso Barisano.

15 minutes

Casa Cava

Once you reach the bottom of Sasso Barisano, you visit an underground space, Casa Cava.

15 minutes

Casa Grotta Sassi di Matera - C'era Una Volta

Once you reach the bottom of Sasso Barisano, you visit a typically furnished cave house, a demonstration of how the miserable peasant civilization lived until the mid-1950s, the workshop of the famous master tuff maker "Sassi in Miniatura".

20 minutes

Church of Santa Maria de Idris

We continue to the Sasso Caveoso district with a visit to a rock church, completely dug into the rock and a treasure chest of Italian-Greek monasticism with precious iconographic testimonies from the 10th-13th centuries. A visit to the archaeological area of the necropolis of the "Barbaric Cemetery" is not to be missed, a vast area dedicated to around 150 burials dug into the rock, still visible, dating back to the 7th century. A.D. and from which you can admire a wonderful view of the cliff of the ravine and the settlement of the "Rione Casalnovo" or "Albanian neighborhood".

25 minutes

Province of Matera (Pass By)

The tour ends, going back up to the city level, near the Provincial Palace, with a small tasting of typical Lucanian products.