Some places feel modern and fast-moving, while others seem frozen in time. Matera belongs to the second kind. Located in ...

A dreamy 5 day travel itinerary through Puglia and Matera with coastal towns, ancient caves, sunsets and Italian food ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning writer/podcaster, I've been to 100+ countries. Matera, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata, has been ...

European Capital of Culture status has shone a spotlight on Italy's oldest city, whose previous claims to fame were an image as a cinematic "New Jerusalem" but also its "shameful" slums. Matera, ...

You may well have a sense of déjà-vu when you enter Matera, a place that seems at once both truly exotic, oddly familiar and a little eerie. Spread over a valley in Basilicata, the town is stark, ...

Anyone from Jesus to James Bond has been seen in the Unesco heritage site now open for business after lockdown As audiences have come to expect with the James Bond franchise, the locations are almost ...

The third-oldest city in the world, Matera is in the limelight in 2019 but it has an enduring, timeless appeal that few travellers will be able to resist. Here's what The Local's editor Clare Speak ...

Long overlooked by tourists, the Italian cave town of Matera is having a moment, spurred by its selection as the 2019 European Capital of Culture, its recent designation as a UNESCO World Heritage ...

Roads and venues remain unbuilt as the southern Italian city struggles to be the 2019 capital of culture When the southern Italian city of Matera found out it had been selected as the 2019 European ...