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Matera: park of Rock churches walking tour
Matera Park of Rock Churches Walking Tour
Matera Park of Rock Churches Walking Tour
Matera: park of Rock churches walking tour
Matera Park of Rock Churches Walking Tour

Matera*Belvedere walking tour

By CREA Experience
Free cancellation available
Price is CA $51 per adult
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Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages
Overview

Enjoy a licensed guided tour of the Rock Churches Park: it's an easy walk on the Murgia plateau, within the 'Natural Historical Archaeological Park of the Rock Churches', and is led by an experienced licensed local guide. It will be possible to explore the naturalistic and geological aspects of the park, by walking on the edge of the deep 'ravine. Over 150 rock-carved places of worship, called rupestrian churches, give the Murgia plateau a spiritual atmosphere since the early Middle Ages. The deep canyon's stunning landscape acquires a new meaning as a place of the soul, besides being a scene of visible traces of agro-pastoral activities, dating back to the Neolithic period. Visit rock churches such as “Madonna delle Tre Porte”. You have the chance to listen to an exiciting and cultural storytelling of the ancient time and hidden city and to observe the Sassi area walking on film locations. This tour is for small groups of up to 15 persons and the duration is approximately 2 hours.

Activity location

  • Jazzo Gattini - Centro Visite
    • S.S. 7 in direzione Taranto fino al km 583
    • Matera, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Centro Visite Jazzo Gattini
    • Contrada Murgia Timone
    • 75100, Matera, Basilicata, Italy

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Matera_Belvedere walking tour
  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h2h
  • English
Starting time: 10:00 a.m.
Price details
CA $51.24 x 1 AdultCA $51.24
Total
Price is CA $51.24
Until Sat, Nov 23

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedLocal expert licensed guide
  • What's includedWhat's includedGuided walk tour
  • What's includedWhat's includedTransfer from Matera to Jazzo Gattini
  • What's includedWhat's includedEntrance to the rock churches
  • What's includedWhat's includedA fascinating landscape: an insolit view on Murgia Canyon and Sassi
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedBottled water
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedTransfer from Matera to the meeting point Jazzo Gattini, only on request

Know before you book

  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Not recommended for travellers with spinal injuries
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • comfortable shoes
  • Not recommended for peaople with mobility empairments

Activity itinerary

Jazzo Gattini - Centro Visite
  • 30m
Murgia Timone, a panoramic area facing the Sassi di Matera, very representative of the entire protected area. In the area, which includes a spectacular stretch of the Gravina di Matera canyon, are a series of rock settlements. This is a guided walk of just over 2 hours following a fascinating, scenic route. It winds along the slope of the Gravina opposite the Sassi, taking in a number of caves and rock churches.
Chiesa Rupestre di Madonna delle Tre Porte
  • 30m
  • Admission ticket included
Despite the church's rather rustic entrance, the interior is well decorated with frescoes and multiple crosses scratched into the walls. However, gaps in the masonry are the result of German archaeologist Rudolf Kubesh removing more valuable frescoes from the church in the 1960s.
Chiesa Rupestre Di San Falcione
  • 15m
  • Admission ticket included
Rock churches excavated in the 9th and 10th centuries generally conformed to a Byzantine model, having a rectangular or square chamber with plain walls and behind this two arched presbyteries supported by a central pillar. The rupestrian church of San Falcione is also known as San Canio (Saint Canius) or San Canione. Saint Canius, bishop and martyr, is the patron saint of Acerenza and its archdiocese, which is historically linked to Matera’s.
Parco della Murgia Materana
  • 45m
Parco Regionale Archeologico Storico Naturale delle Chiese Rupestri del Materano, also called Parco della Murgia Materana, is characterised by a soft rock consisting of deep fissures creating cliffs, ravines, caves, and gorges which have been used by man since prehistory.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESJazzo Gattini - Centro Visite
    • S.S. 7 in direzione Taranto fino al km 583
    • Matera, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLECentro Visite Jazzo Gattini
    • Contrada Murgia Timone
    • 75100, Matera, Basilicata, Italy

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