Advantages: a unique destination Disadvantages: no public loos
...then Prime Minister went to Matera, and ordered the immediate evacuation of the cave dwellers. New houses were built at the outskirts; were the people happy to have decent rooms, running water and electricity? Not at all as they couldnīt take their animals with them but had to leave them in the caves and go there and feed them.
When by 1952 16.000 inhabitants had left their dwellings, the state took possession of the area and now the sassi are slowly ... ...Tourism brings some money to Matera, thanks to Mel Gibsonīs film more than before. When we were there at the beginning of April with our students on a day out from the town our school has an exchange programme with the season hadnīt started yet which was good for us. Some of our students had already seen the film and recognised the streets through which īChristī had carried the cross as well as īGolgathaī which is on the hill behind the Sasso Caveoso.
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MALU 09.10.2004 (15.10.2004)
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