Today Matera is the fastest-growing city in Italy at a time when so many southern towns are losing population. This year, ...

Tourists flock to cities such as Rome and Florence, but there is one Italian destination which is just as scenic and arguably ...

This underrated city is home to a World Heritage Site and named a "Second Bethlehem", can be slowly explored without any crowds.

The city of Matera in southern Italy is thought to be among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Its stone-made buildings lie atop a hill above a ravine, while its millennia-old ...

Pat McGauley, writer, historian, Italophile and friend, who only went and wrote a magisterial book on the city. Matera, 1945-1960, The History of a ‘National Disgrace’, is as indispensable an ...