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Provinces Basilicata
Hotels in Matera
Matera is a town and a province in the region of
Basilicata, sometimes referred to as Lucania, in the south of Italy.
Apart from an economy which has traditionally been based on agriculture, in the late 1990s the major economic base of Matera, and of surrounding cities, is the production of upholstery furniture.
The town of Matera itself is unique, with a degree of culture and elegance unusual by southern standards and, in its sassi – dwellings dug out of the ravine in tiers – one of the country's oddest urban features. The sassi are mainly abandoned now, an eerie troglodyte enclave occupying the lower regions of the city. But until thirty-odd years ago this part of the city was still populated by the poorest of the materani.
