Located in Southern Italy, Sassi di Matera may be ancient, but the city remains a bustling tourist destination to this day.
With a history that dates back over 10,000 years, Matera is believed to be one of the oldest continually inhabited settlements in the world.
If parts of Matera look familiar to you, that’s because the scenery has often been used by filmmakers as the setting for ancient Jerusalem in biblical films since the 1950s.
Over the course of its history, Matera has been occupied by Greeks, Romans, Longobards, Byzantines, Saracens, Swabians, Angevins, Aragonese, and Bourbons.
In 1993, Sassi di Matera was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Scott Brownlee
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