Matera’s a town where visitors can sleep in luxury caves (tricked out with heated floors and Wi-Fi), hike in a nature preserve, eat hyperlocal burrata, admire modern art and Byzantine frescoes ...

After visiting all 20 regions in Italy, Basilicata is my favorite. It has beautiful beaches in Maratea, and iconic food in the historic city Matera.

In what is the instep of Italy’s boot, the first forays into Italy from North Africa came to settle in Matera 10,000 years ago. Living quarters were fashioned in both the limestone caves and ...

Now a UNESCO World Heritage site, Matera in the province of Basilicata, has become a great tourist draw and location for moviemaking.

Within Italy's oldest city, Matera, an underrated ancient gem with a history that dates back more than 30,000 years, lies the Sassi di Matera, a UNESCO World Heritage site. This 2,510-acre ...

Matera is nicknamed, ‘The Subterranean City.’ Michela Palermo for The Wall Street Journal ‘In the Sassi, you are never finished,” says Domenico Marsicano of his home in Southern Italy.

MATERA, Italy — Matera, in the south of Italy, is known as the City of Stones for its architecture. For the next season of The Chosen, it’ll be known by another name: Jerusalem. With its ...

MATERA, Italy — Matera, in the south of Italy, is known as the “City of Stones” for its architecture. For the next season of “The Chosen,” it’ll be known by another name: Jerusalem ...