Matera di Sassi
October 13th 2016 Dianne had planned this trip meticulously and the last stop was Matera. I had limited knowledge of what went on there. I heard something about the sassi (plural of sasso) being a bunch of caves where people had lived even into the 1960s. But I wasn’t prepared for what we saw.
I can’t begin to describe how this ancient town developed. In an article in The New Yorker in 2015,
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