Matera, Italy 🇮🇹 The City of Caves Walking Tour | UNESCO Sassi & Cathedral | 4K60fps

Matera walking tour — a 4.25-mile route through one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. The walk begins at Piazza Vittorio Veneto, descends into Sasso Barisano, climbs through the Civita to the Cathedral, crosses through Sasso Caveoso along the edge of the Gravina ravine, and returns through the historic center. Filmed in 4K60fps in June 2025. ⭐ Don't miss: Belvedere Luigi Guerricchio at 3:35, Palombaro Lungo underground cistern at 10:07, San Giorgio al Paradiso cave dwellings at 39:10, Piazza Duomo & Cathedral at 52:09, Casa Grotta cave house at 1:06:49, Santa Maria de Idris on Monterrone rock at 1:58:08, and the View of the Three Crosses (a Passion of the Christ filming location) at 1:58:33. 📅 Filmed on: Monday, June 16th, 2025 at 12:01 PM 🌞 Weather: 31°C | 88°F 📍 Location: Matera, Basilicata, Italy 📏 Distance: 4.25 Miles 🗺️ Map of the Walk: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mi... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TOUR TIMELINE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 Intro and Map 1:05 Piazza Vittorio Veneto ⭐ 3:27 Belvedere Luigi Guerricchio ⭐ 10:07 Palombaro Lungo (Underground Cistern) 18:23 Sasso Barisano 30:37 San Vito al Lombardo Chapel 35:05 Amore Crusco L'Osteria ⭐ 39:10 San Giorgio al Paradiso (Cave Dwellings) ⭐ 52:09 Piazza Duomo & Cathedral of Matera 1:01:52 Sassi in Miniature ⭐ 1:06:35 Casa Grotta (Cave House) ⭐ 1:10:52 Via D'Addozio 1:16:05 Chiesa di Sant'Agostino & Scenic Viewpoint 1:18:33 Walking Down Via D'Addozio 1:24:31 Matera Ravine Views 1:33:54 Via Madonna delle Virtù to Sasso Caveoso 1:40:52 Sasso Caveoso 1:41:12 Trail Closure (Passion of the Christ Filming) 1:45:13 Piazza San Pietro Caveoso 1:46:07 Church of San Pietro Caveoso 1:51:07 Steps up to Viewpoint of Piazza 1:55:59 Steps up to Monterrone ⭐ 1:57:40 Santa Maria de Idris ⭐ 1:58:25 View of Three Crosses (Passion of the Christ Location) 2:00:48 Piazza Madonna de Idris 2:06:27 Rione Malve (Lombard-era Tombs) 2:20:28 Via Casalnuovo 2:24:13 Belvedere Piazzetta Pascoli 2:26:10 Piazzetta Pascoli 2:28:08 Chiesa di Santa Chiara d'Assisi 2:31:18 Piazza & Chiesa di San Francesco d'Assisi 2:35:23 Piazza del Sedile 2:37:43 Via delle Beccherie 2:41:07 Via del Corso (Festa della Bruna Luminarie) 2:42:26 Piazza Vittorio Veneto 2:44:32 Final Scenic Viewpoint ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏛️ ABOUT MATERA ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Matera is one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the world. The city is built into a limestone canyon carved by the Gravina river, with cave dwellings excavated directly into the soft calcarenite rock. By the mid-20th century, the Sassi had become symbols of extreme poverty, and the Italian government relocated all residents to new housing between 1952 and the 1970s. A 1986 restoration law reopened the area, and UNESCO designation in 1993 accelerated its transformation. The walk passes a film set closure for The Passion of the Christ (2004), which used Matera as a stand-in for ancient Jerusalem. The city has also hosted No Time to Die (2021), Wonder Woman (2017), and Ben-Hur (2016). ▶ Watch Next:    • Ultimate Rome Bike Tour 🇮🇹 | Colosseum, Tr...   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📽 MORE WALKING TOURS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍕 Italy:    • Italy Walking Tours | 4K   🎄 Christmas Markets:    • Christmas Markets Walking Tours in 4K HDR ...   🌍 Complete List: http://www.prowalktours.com/videos ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📢 SUPPORT & CONNECT 📢 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 Website: https://www.prowalktours.com 📧 Email: info@prowalktours.com 🔔 Subscribe for more!    / @prowalktours   🟥 Become a Member:    / @prowalktours   🔶 Support me on Patreon:   / prowalktours   🔷 Help with a donation: https://www.paypal.me/Prowalks ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎥 CAMERA & RECORDING GEAR I USE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 DJI Osmo Pocket 3 👉 https://amzn.to/4aelKS2 🏃 GoPro Hero 13 👉 https://amzn.to/4qldBRQ 🎬 Sony A7S III 👉 https://amzn.to/4qga72E 🎥 DJI RS4 Mini Gimbal 👉 https://amzn.to/4bCxMXM 🎙️ Sony ECM-M1 Microphone 👉 https://amzn.to/3ZQ75HH 🛒 Complete Gear List: https://www.amazon.com/shop/prowalktours 🚷 No portion of this video may be used without prior written consent from Prowalk Tours. If you appear in this video and wish to have your image removed, please contact me at info@prowalktours.com #Matera #MateraItaly #SassidiMatera #Italy #UNESCO #WalkingTour #Italy4K #Basilicata #Prowalktours #4K60fps