FIRST DAY
The visit starts from the central square of the city, Piazza Vittorio Veneto, to illustrate the adjacent churches, San Domenico, Cavalieri di Malta and the surprising view of the Sasso Barisano district, with the characteristic houses clinging to the rock and the numerous restoration works.
Visit the "Palombaro Lungo" a huge cistern for the collection of rainwater, dug below the square and dating back to the nineteenth century. Brought to light in 1991, it has an estimated capacity of about 5 million liters. This fascinating visit allows us to understand the clear separation between what was the city of the peasants, or the Rioni Sassi, and the new bourgeois city.
Move along Via San Biagio and stop at the Church of San Giovanni Battista, a true medieval architectural jewel dating back to 1233. Visit to the Casa-Cava, a space of 900 square meters divided into 10 rooms dug into the tuff of a former quarry of post-medieval origin in the heart of the ancient city. Inaugurated in 2011 and conceived as a space for creative and multimedia events, it houses an impressive auditorium with 140 seats.  Visit to the rock church of San Pietro Barisano, originally known as San Pietro de Veteribus, which is the largest rock church within the town of the Sassi with an initial rock structure dating from the twelfth-thirteenth century and the imposing eighteenth-century facade. Visit to the Casa-Grotta Museum, a faithful reconstruction of the typical houses of the Rioni Sassi.
Lunch break.
In the afternoon visit to the rupestrian hypogeum complex Madonna delle Virtù and San Nicola dei Greci, where international exhibitions of modern and contemporary sculpture are organized every year by the Circolo Culturale La Scaletta. The complex has two churches, one overhanging the other, and numerous underground spaces communicating in a maze of empty and full that follows each other animated by the presence this year of the works of Salvador Dali. The exhibition that displays about 200 pieces of the work of the Spanish master, The Persistence of Opposites, recalls in some way just the game of full and empty typical of the environments of the Sassi, the modus operandi that has created, over thousands of years, the characteristic landscape of the ancient districts, which has made Matera so famous and popular in the world.
Dinner and overnight stay.
SECOND DAY
Breakfast and transfer to Gravina, protagonist of a key scene in the last 007 movie still unreleased, and center of the rocky habitat. The tour is divided into the historic center to discover the treasures of the city such as the Church of San Michele delle Grotte, the oldest and largest rock church in the city, a symbol of the cult of the Apulian Micaelico or the Crypt of San Vito Vecchio in the Museum "Fondazione Ettore Pomarici Santomasi" full of beautiful frescoes such as Christ Pantocrator blessing in the Greek manner surrounded by saints. The visit continues in the rock church of San Basilio, located in the "Lama Chiascio" (today Piaggio) and in the Church of Santa Sofia, a small hidden jewel, inside which you can admire the funeral mausoleum of Angela Castriota Scanderberg. The walk continues towards the Medieval Bastion, an ancient wall of the '500 that will give you its wonderful Belvedere Terrace on the Rocky Habitat until the Aqueduct Bridge Viaduct that will give you a breathtaking view. Stop at Gravina Sotterranea, a spectacular underground network that winds its way through the city, a set of caves, halls and rooms of various kinds connected to each other that have been used over the centuries for different purposes and that allow a very interesting underground route.
Lunch stop and departure.