Southern Italy
Basilicata
Province of Matera

Matera

Matera is the capital of the Matera province in the region of . It boasts the sassi: well-preserved rock-cut settlements that are a World Heritage site and one of Southern Italy's many important attractions.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Sassi di Matera and Castello Tramontano.

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The are two districts of the city of Matera, , well-known for their ancient dwellings inhabited since the Paleolithic period.

Castle
Photo: Mateola, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a 16th-century fortification situated on Lapellio Hill, above the historical city of Matera with in the .

Photo: Luca Aless, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Palazzo dell'Annunziata is a historical building in Matera, Italy. The Palazzo was constructed in 1735 by architect Vito Valentino for the Pontifical Commission.

Matera

Latitude
40.667° or 40° 40′ 1″ north
Longitude
16.6063° or 16° 36′ 23″ east
Population
59,600
Elevation
401 metres (1,316 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IT MTR
Open location code
8FGRMJ84+RG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9887520834
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3173721
Wiki­data ID
Q13616
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Matera” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Matera”
  • Arabic: “ماتيرا”
  • Arabic: “متيرة”
  • Aragonese: “Matera”
  • Armenian: “Մատերա”
  • Arpitan: “Matera”
  • Asturian: “Matera”
  • Azerbaijani: “Matera”
  • Basque: “Matera”
  • Bavarian: “Matera”
  • Belarusian: “Матэра”
  • Bengali: “মাটােরা”
  • Bengali: “মাতেরা”
  • Breton: “Matera”
  • Bulgarian: “Матера”
  • Catalan: “Matera”
  • Cebuano: “Matera”
  • Chechen: “Матера (Итали)”
  • Chechen: “Матера”
  • Chinese: “Matera”
  • Chinese: “馬泰拉”
  • Chinese: “马泰拉”
  • Corsican: “Matera”
  • Croatian: “Matera”
  • Czech: “Matera”
  • Danish: “Matera”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Matera”
  • Dutch: “Matera”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماتيرا”
  • Esperanto: “Matera”
  • Esperanto: “Matero”
  • Estonian: “Matera”
  • Finnish: “Matera”
  • French: “Matera”
  • Friulian: “Matera”
  • Galician: “Matera”
  • Georgian: “მატერა”
  • German: “Matera”
  • Greek: “Ματέρα”
  • Gujarati: “મટેરા”
  • Hebrew: “מטרה”
  • Hindi: “मटेरा”
  • Hungarian: “Matera”
  • Icelandic: “Matera”
  • Ido: “Matera”
  • Indonesian: “Matera”
  • Interlingua: “Matera”
  • Interlingue: “Matera”
  • Irish: “Matera”
  • Italian: “Matera”
  • Japanese: “マテーラ”
  • Javanese: “Matera”
  • Kannada: “ಮಟೇರ”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾತೇರ”
  • Kazakh: “Матера”
  • Kongo: “Matera”
  • Korean: “마테라”
  • Kurdish: “Matera, Italy”
  • Kurdish: “Matera”
  • Ladin: “Matera”
  • Latin: “Materia”
  • Latin: “Mathera”
  • Latvian: “Matēra”
  • Ligurian: “Matêa”
  • Ligurian: “Matera”
  • Limburgan: “Matera”
  • Lithuanian: “Matera”
  • Lombard: “Matera”
  • Low German: “Matera”
  • Luxembourgish: “Matera”
  • Macedonian: “Матера”
  • Malagasy: “Matera”
  • Malay: “Matera”
  • Marathi: “मॅटरा”
  • Marathi: “मेटारा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Matera”
  • Minangkabau: “Matera”
  • Mingrelian: “მატერა”
  • Moksha: “Матэра”
  • Narom: “Matera”
  • Neapolitan: “Matera”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Matera”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Matera”
  • Norwegian: “Matera”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Matera”
  • Ossetian: “Матерæ”
  • Papiamento: “Matera”
  • Persian: “ماترا”
  • Picard: “Matera”
  • Piemontese: “Matera”
  • Polish: “Matera”
  • Portuguese: “Matera”
  • Romanian: “Matera”
  • Romansh: “Matera”
  • Russian: “Матера”
  • Sanskrit: “मातेरा”
  • Sardinian: “Matera”
  • Scots: “Matera”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Matera”
  • Serbian: “Matera”
  • Serbian: “Матера”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Matera”
  • Sicilian: “Matera”
  • Silesian: “Matera”
  • Sinhala: “මටෙරා”
  • Sinhala: “මාතර”
  • Slovak: “Matera”
  • Slovenian: “Matera”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماترا”
  • Spanish: “Matera”
  • Swahili: “Matera”
  • Swedish: “Matera”
  • Swiss German: “Matera”
  • Tagalog: “Matera”
  • Tamil: “மாட்டரா”
  • Tamil: “மாதேரா”
  • Tatar: “Матера”
  • Telugu: “మాటెరా”
  • Thai: “มาเตรา”
  • Thai: “มาเทร่า”
  • Turkish: “Matera”
  • Ukrainian: “Матера”
  • Urdu: “ماتیرا”
  • Uzbek: “Matera”
  • Venetian: “Matera”
  • Vietnamese: “Matera”
  • Vlaams: “Matera”
  • Volapük: “Matera”
  • Walloon: “Matera”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Matera”
  • Welsh: “Matera”
  • Wolof: “Matera”
  • Wu Chinese: “马泰拉”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬泰拉”
  • Zulu: “Matera”
  • “Matera”
  • “Matere”

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