⭐ Highlight
Sassi di Matera
The extraordinary cave-dwelling Sassi carved into a ravine, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Typical duration
180 min
Price
€ tours vary
From port
65 km / 40.4 mi
Transfer time
75 min
Indoor / Outdoor
outdoor
Queue risk
medium
📋 Booking recommended👨👩👧 Family friendly
🕐 Best time to visit
Morning; allow travel time both ways
Matera's Sassi are two districts of dwellings, churches and cisterns carved into a limestone ravine, inhabited for millennia and once desperately poor, now restored and UNESCO-listed. The cave churches with faded frescoes and the ravine viewpoints are the highlights; it needs travel time, so plan the return carefully.
Getting there from the port
FAL train from Bari or a guided tour or private driver
🚌 Best transport: train💶 Cost: € tour or ~€10 train