travel42 Hotel Review: Vetera Matera Hotel

Vetera Matera Hotel travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Matera, located in Italy's Basilicata region, is the third oldest inhabited city in the world, and was deemed a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1993. The city is uniquely built into its own sassi, or caves. The caves were once home to the locals of Matera, where families upward of 20 people would live in the confined spaces.

This history can provide a conflicting contrast to what Matera is today. In the 1980s, the Italian government invested in resto...