Sassi di Matera
The Sassi di Matera are two districts of the Italian city of Matera, Basilicata, well-known for their ancient cave dwellings inhabited since the Paleolithic period.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Museo della Scultura Contemporanea and Museum-workshop of the Peasant Culture.
Museo della Scultura Contemporanea
Museum
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Museo della Scultura Contemporanea is a museum.
Museum-workshop of the Peasant Culture
Museum
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The Museum-workshop of the Peasant Culture is an ethno-anthropological museum in Matera, situated in the ancient Sassi district. It was founded by Donato Cascione and is managed by the homonym cultural association. Museum-workshop of the Peasant Culture is situated 220 metres northwest of Sassi di Matera.
National Museum of Matera
Museum
Photo: Mngon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
National Museum of Matera is situated 310 metres southwest of Sassi di Matera.
Sassi di Matera
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: human settlement in Matera, Province of Matera, Basilicata, Italy
- Categories: archaeological site, old town, neighborhood, and tourism
- Location: Matera, Province of Matera, Basilicata, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
40.66606° or 40° 39′ 58″ northLongitude
16.61156° or 16° 36′ 42″ eastElevation
386 metres (1,266 feet)Open location code
8FGRMJ86+CJOpenStreetMap ID
node 2279682700OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Sassi di Matera” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ساسي دي ماتيرا”
- Basque: “Sassi di Matera”
- Catalan: “Sassi di Matera”
- Chinese: “馬泰拉的石窟民居”
- Chinese: “馬特拉洞窟民居”
- Danish: “I Sassi di Matera”
- Dutch: “Sassi di Matera”
- Dutch: “Sassi van Matera”
- Finnish: “Sassi di Matera”
- French: “Sassi de Matera”
- French: “Sassi di Matera”
- Galician: “Sassi di Matera”
- German: “Sassi di Matera”
- German: “Sassi von Matera”
- Hebrew: “הסאסי במטרה”
- Hindi: “सासी दि मटेरा”
- Hungarian: “Sassi di Matera”
- Italian: “Sassi di Matera”
- Japanese: “マテーラの洞窟住居”
- Macedonian: “Саси ди Матера”
- Maltese: “Sassi ta‘ Matera”
- Maltese: “Sassi ta’ Matera”
- Persian: “ساسی دی ماترا”
- Portuguese: “Sassi di Matera”
- Russian: “Сасси”
- Slovenian: “Sassi di Matera”
- Spanish: “Sassi di Matera”
- Turkish: “Sassi di Matera”
- Vietnamese: “Sassi di Matera”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Rioni Sassi and Sasso Barisano.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sassi di Matera”. Photo: Marcok, CC BY-SA 2.5.