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Day 32 - Matera/Sassi

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November 10th 2013
After an uninspiring breakfast (and now two more days of the same!) we eventually found an information place and ended up on a bus to Matera, 1.5 hrs trip, thankful to be out of Bari. Roy said "well, who would have thought, on a Sunday afternoon we would be sitting in a bus in Italy travelling from Bari to Matera?" We arrived in Matera, purchased a map from the Info area, declined a guided tour an ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more