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Matera, European capital of culture - Coggle Diagram
Matera, European capital of culture
location and special
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you will find yourself eating in caves, sleeping in caves, even swimming and bathing in caves
no cars allowed, you can only walk
famous sight
rock churches
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the thirteenth-century Matera Cathedral feature a rose window, a 52-meter-tall bell tower
must-sees include the Church of Saint Mary of Idris, which is built directly into an enormous rock
the Church of Saint Peter Barisano, a recently restored cave church, the largest cave church in Matera
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history
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people constructed streets on the top of older caves and reached the top of the hill in the Middle Ages
by the seventeenth century, it had fallen into poverty
1950s the inhabitants of Matera were moved to better homes, leaving the caves empty
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