I am working on a moderately handy travel guide post for Matera based on our visit, but there are too many beautiful pictures of the city to be limited to that post! We thought the city looked beautiful when we researched visiting but we were still blown away by how breath-taking it was. You turn a corner and you find a cobbled stairway with stone arches and creeping vines and old wooden doors--your eyes almost become tired of absorbing the details. I suppose the twisting alleyways and sloping stairs can become confusing and you could get easily lost, but since we hardly ever set out with a specific destination in mind or a lot of hurry we loved every moment of wandering.
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