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Matera, European Capital of Culture - Coggle Diagram
Matera, European Capital of Culture
Matera 
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located on the side of a hill overlooking a steep river valley in Southern Italy, boasts hundreds of caves.
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The caves
have been inhabited for over 12,000 years
Over thousands of years, people added churches, storerooms stables for animals, and house-like front entrances and water systems.
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history
By the seventeenth century, Matera
had fallen into extreme poverty.
in the 1950s, the inhabitants of Matera were moved to better homes, leaving the caves empty for
the first time in thousands of years.
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In 2019, the city
became a European Capital of Culture.
famous scenery
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Palombaro Lungo
You can actually take a boat ride through this immense water reservoir carved right out of the rock.
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