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(ITA) Santuario di Santa Maria della Palomba
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The Santa Lucia and Sant’Agata’ s monastry
Matera is made of breath-taking glimpses and magic places, where time seems to have stopped. The former Santa Lucia and Sant’Agata alla Civita’s monastry is one of these places: born as a fortified farm of 7th century, it became a Benedictine convent from the late 13th until the 18th centuries when the nuns of Santa […]
Aion nei Sassi
Art exhibition inside San Pietro Barisano church Women are still protagonist of the artistic path by Louise Manzon, in the exhibition “Aion nei Sassi”. They are bringers of life, keepers of dreams and hopes. The female sculptures are around 30, covered with poor materials, wire of iron, fragments of mesh screens and ceramic crocks, crowned […]
La cisterna del Palombaro lungo – Matera
The Palombaro Lungo is an underground cistern, like other cisterns in the town, it collected rain-water, totally dug by hands in the 1870. It is deep 15 meters and can contain 5 million cubic metres of water. To make the Palombaro waterproof, was used the cocciopesto’s technique, that is an ancient technique belonged to the […]
Salvador Dalì exhibition in Matera
La Persistenza degli Opposti More than 200 original and certified works by Salvador Dalí in the Dalí Universe exhibition “La Persistenza degli Opposti” dedicated to Salvador Dalí, staged into the suggestive cave churches Madonna delle Virtù e San Nicola dei Greci throughout the year of Matera European Capital of Culture 2019 (until 30th November 2019). […]
(ITA) Cerimonia inaugurale di Matera Capitale Europea della Cultura 2019
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