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| 3316 View of Sasso Caveoso in Matera, from the Murge |
Lying in a small canyon carved out by the Gravina River, Materais known as la città sotterranea (the underground city), because its historical centre Sassi contains a complex of houses, churches, monasteries and hermitages built into the natural caves of the Murgia. This remarkable and intact troglodyte settlement contains more than a thousand dwellings and a large number of shops and workshops. The morphology of the territory, characterized by deep ravines (gravine) and bare highland plateaus, integrated with ancient cave churches, shepherd tracks marked by wells, and fortified farmhouses, form one of the most evocative landscapes of the Mediterranean.
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