Matera

The old town of Matera is a major tourist destination being a UNESCO World Heritage site. The tourist season seems to have started here already, for I found hordes of schoolchildren bused in to learn something and clogging up the narrow streets.
Unlike Craco for example, the town is a busy and growing collection of apartment blocks surrounding the Disney town with some unease generated by the coaches and throngs visiting the ancient sites.
For ancient they are. People have been living here since the Neolithic era.Leggi altro