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The town of Matera rises on a characteristic landscape of a deep ravine with overhanging rocks under which the Gravina stream flows. This town has many faces, the most famous of which is certainly the ‘Sassi’, which the UNESCO has recognized as ‘humanity's patrimony to hand down to future generations’. The ‘Sassi’ are dominated by the Cathedral of Mediaeval Age, and they lodge inside them the suggestive Museum of the Peasant Civilization. All around Matera, in the ‘Murgia’, there is the Park of the Rock Hewn Churches.
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