Sassi di Matera Pass – City Cards Official

Attractions included:

• Chiesa Rupestre Madonna delle Grazie: Located in the Sasso Caveoso, the church is one of the examples of rocky places of worship within the Rioni Sassi. Its history is one of the longest, as it was among the last to be closed to worship.
• Casa Grotta “Once upon a time”: an architectural testimony to the millennia-old peasant civilization, the Casa Grotta Narrante, consists of several rooms where it is possible to relive through memories and preserved objects customs and traditions of that culture that has long remained on the margins of society.
• Chiesa Rupestre di Sant’Antonio Abate: Located in the Sasso Barisano, the small church is part of the circuit of rock churches. Excavated in the rock, it is built according to the typical local building tradition in which the front part is made in the rocky bank and the built part is made of load-bearing masonry of local calcarenite.
• Museum of San Giorgio: A rock site that, in its 40-meter depth , covers 1,000 years of Matera’s history. The ancient church of San Giorgio al Paradiso first gave way to an oil mill in the 1700s and a wine cellar for crushing grapes and storing barrels. The water reclamation system can be seen with its intact canals and cisterns plastered with earthenware.
• Paired with the Full Tourist Card you will receive a map with useful information for exploring the city

→ The cost of this card is 21€ per person*.

*From 7 to 12 years old, the cost is €4.

LIGHT TOURIST CARD:

Attractions included:

• Chiesa Rupestre Madonna delle Grazie: Located in the Sasso Caveoso, the church is one of the examples of rocky places of worship within the Rioni Sassi. Its history is one of the longest, as it was among the last to be closed to worship.
• Casa Grotta “Once upon a time”: an architectural testimony to the millennia-old peasant civilization, the Casa Grotta Narrante, consists of several rooms where it is possible to relive through memories and preserved objects customs and traditions of that culture that has long remained on the margins of society.
• Chiesa Rupestre di Sant’Antonio Abate: Located in the Sasso Barisano, the small church is part of the circuit of rock churches. Excavated in the rock, it is built according to the typical local building tradition in which the front part is made in the rocky bank and the built part is made of load-bearing masonry of local calcarenite.
• Museum of San Giorgio: A rock site that, in its 40-meter depth , covers 1,000 years of Matera’s history. The ancient church of San Giorgio al Paradiso first gave way to an oil mill in the 1700s and a wine cellar for crushing grapes and storing barrels. The water reclamation system can be seen with its intact canals and cisterns plastered with earthenware.
• Casa Cava: The Casa Cava is an underground environment formerly used as a tuff quarry. Today, however, it is instead a space used as an auditorium and conference center thanks to an exceptional restoration work.
• Paired with the Full Tourist Card you will receive a map with useful information for exploring the city

→ The cost of this card is €25 per person*.

*From 7 to 12 years old, the cost is €4.

FULL TOURIST CARD:

Attractions included:

• Chiesa Rupestre Madonna delle Grazie: Located in the Sasso Caveoso, the church is one of the examples of rocky places of worship within the Rioni Sassi. Its history is one of the longest, as it was among the last to be closed to worship.
• Casa Grotta “Once upon a time”: an architectural testimony to the millennia-old peasant civilization, the Casa Grotta Narrante, consists of several rooms where it is possible to relive through memories and preserved objects customs and traditions of that culture that has long remained on the margins of society.
• Chiesa Rupestre di Sant’Antonio Abate: Located in the Sasso Barisano, the small church is part of the circuit of rock churches. Excavated in the rock, it is built according to the typical local building tradition in which the front part is made in the rocky bank and the built part is made of load-bearing masonry of local calcarenite.
• Museum of San Giorgio: A rock site that, in its 40-meter depth , covers 1,000 years of Matera’s history. The ancient church of San Giorgio al Paradiso first gave way to an oil mill in the 1700s and a wine cellar for crushing grapes and storing barrels. The water reclamation system can be seen with its intact canals and cisterns plastered with earthenware.
• Casa Cava: The Casa Cava is an underground environment formerly used as a tuff quarry. Today, however, it is instead a space used as an auditorium and conference center thanks to an exceptional restoration work.
• Matera Sum: Alongside the many wonders already known about the city (the rock churches, the settlement in the Sassi, the cisterns), a special and different charm takes on the hypogeum city, a unique represented by the Materasum Hypogeum, which makes it possible to visit part of what has been admirably described as “an extraordinary palimpsest of settlement stratifications, which take their start in a very remote age.” Environments carved into the rock, ancient dwellings with openings for light and air to penetrate, inside which we can imagine the unfolding of daily life in the “civilization of the hypogea.” A fascinating journey through space and time that will take you into the underbelly of Matera one of the oldest cities in the world.
• Paired with the Full Tourist Card you will receive a map with useful information for exploring the city
• → The cost of this card is 31€ per person*.*From 7 to 12 years old, the cost is 4€.