{"id":3962,"date":"2025-04-16T17:39:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/matera\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T09:19:07","slug":"the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sassi and the Magic of the Ancient Stone City: Matera"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3962\" class=\"elementor elementor-3962 elementor-2837\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4d1bff6d e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4d1bff6d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;buzzblog_ext_is_background_parallax&quot;:&quot;false&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0d3e827 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0d3e827\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;buzzblog_hidepaged&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;buzzblog_ext_is_smoove&quot;:&quot;false&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p data-start=\"159\" data-end=\"252\"><strong data-start=\"159\" data-end=\"250\">Matera, the most famous City of the Sassi, was the European Capital of Culture in 2019.<\/strong><\/p><p data-start=\"254\" data-end=\"454\">Renowned worldwide for its historic <strong data-start=\"290\" data-end=\"310\">Sassi districts,<\/strong> declared a <strong data-start=\"322\" data-end=\"352\">UNESCO World Heritage Site<\/strong> on December 9, 1993, Matera is one of the <strong data-start=\"395\" data-end=\"452\">oldest and most fascinating cities in Southern Italy.<\/strong><\/p><p data-start=\"456\" data-end=\"712\"><strong data-start=\"456\" data-end=\"505\">Matera is a city rich in history and culture.<\/strong> The two districts of the Sassi (<strong data-start=\"538\" data-end=\"550\">Barisano<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"555\" data-end=\"566\">Caveoso<\/strong>) are urban settlements shaped by successive forms of civilization over the centuries, and today they represent the <strong data-start=\"682\" data-end=\"710\">oldest part of the city.<\/strong><\/p><p data-start=\"714\" data-end=\"999\">The city is also famous for its ingenious <strong data-start=\"756\" data-end=\"829\">cisterns and water collection systems, numerous archaeological sites,<\/strong> and its natural treasures such as the <strong data-start=\"868\" data-end=\"900\">Park of the Murgia Materana,<\/strong> which encompasses the entire Gravina di Matera area and its world-famous <strong data-start=\"974\" data-end=\"997\">rock-hewn churches.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matera, the most famous City of the Sassi, was the European Capital of Culture in 2019. Renowned worldwide for its historic Sassi districts, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site on&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"location":[],"class_list":["post-3962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Sassi and the Magic of the Ancient Stone City: Matera - Casa Isabella<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Sassi and the Magic of the Ancient Stone City: Matera - Casa Isabella\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Matera, the most famous City of the Sassi, was the European Capital of Culture in 2019. Renowned worldwide for its historic Sassi districts, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site on...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Casa Isabella\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/casaisabellaexclusive\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-16T15:39:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-06T09:19:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/casa-isabella-itinerari-matera-header.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"791\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"maverg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"maverg\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"maverg\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/#\/schema\/person\/3f175064356beb568190d91665786fa9\"},\"headline\":\"The Sassi and the Magic of the Ancient Stone City: Matera\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-16T15:39:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-06T09:19:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/\"},\"wordCount\":135,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/casa-isabella-itinerari-matera-header.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Non categorizzato\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/\",\"name\":\"The Sassi and the Magic of the Ancient Stone City: Matera - Casa Isabella\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/casa-isabella-itinerari-matera-header.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-16T15:39:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-06T09:19:07+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/casa-isabella-itinerari-matera-header.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/casa-isabella-itinerari-matera-header.jpg\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":791},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Sassi and the Magic of the Ancient Stone City: Matera\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/\",\"name\":\"Hotel 4 stelle Puglia - Casa Isabella\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Casa Isabella\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cropped-favicon.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cropped-favicon.png\",\"width\":512,\"height\":512,\"caption\":\"Casa Isabella\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/casaisabellaexclusive\/\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/casaisabellaexclusive\/\",\"https:\/\/it.pinterest.com\/casaisabell1546\/\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/casa-isabella-exclusive-hotel\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/#\/schema\/person\/3f175064356beb568190d91665786fa9\",\"name\":\"maverg\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c830d660e2e853637dd6d22b3ef2e69e5716f4d5c15d40e24a3b016e7a9f20cc?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c830d660e2e853637dd6d22b3ef2e69e5716f4d5c15d40e24a3b016e7a9f20cc?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"maverg\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/author\/maverg\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Sassi and the Magic of the Ancient Stone City: Matera - Casa Isabella","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Sassi and the Magic of the Ancient Stone City: Matera - Casa Isabella","og_description":"Matera, the most famous City of the Sassi, was the European Capital of Culture in 2019. Renowned worldwide for its historic Sassi districts, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site on...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/","og_site_name":"Casa Isabella","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/casaisabellaexclusive\/","article_published_time":"2025-04-16T15:39:58+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-08-06T09:19:07+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1920,"height":791,"url":"http:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/casa-isabella-itinerari-matera-header.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"maverg","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"maverg","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/"},"author":{"name":"maverg","@id":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/#\/schema\/person\/3f175064356beb568190d91665786fa9"},"headline":"The Sassi and the Magic of the Ancient Stone City: Matera","datePublished":"2025-04-16T15:39:58+00:00","dateModified":"2025-08-06T09:19:07+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/"},"wordCount":135,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/casa-isabella-itinerari-matera-header.jpg","articleSection":["Non categorizzato"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/","url":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/","name":"The Sassi and the Magic of the Ancient Stone City: Matera - Casa Isabella","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/casa-isabella-itinerari-matera-header.jpg","datePublished":"2025-04-16T15:39:58+00:00","dateModified":"2025-08-06T09:19:07+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/casa-isabella-itinerari-matera-header.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/casa-isabella-itinerari-matera-header.jpg","width":1920,"height":791},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/the-sassi-and-the-magic-of-the-ancient-stone-city-matera\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Sassi and the Magic of the Ancient Stone City: Matera"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/","name":"Hotel 4 stelle Puglia - Casa Isabella","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/#organization","name":"Casa Isabella","url":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cropped-favicon.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cropped-favicon.png","width":512,"height":512,"caption":"Casa Isabella"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/casaisabellaexclusive\/","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/casaisabellaexclusive\/","https:\/\/it.pinterest.com\/casaisabell1546\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/casa-isabella-exclusive-hotel\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/#\/schema\/person\/3f175064356beb568190d91665786fa9","name":"maverg","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c830d660e2e853637dd6d22b3ef2e69e5716f4d5c15d40e24a3b016e7a9f20cc?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c830d660e2e853637dd6d22b3ef2e69e5716f4d5c15d40e24a3b016e7a9f20cc?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"maverg"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.casaisabella.it"],"url":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/author\/maverg\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4021,"href":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions\/4021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casaisabella.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}