Modern living in the ancient caves of Matera, Italy

[@FrancescoManicone-o4o]

Vito is a good and passionale tour guide. Glad to see him on CBS!

[@johnclement9370]

Love this ancient backstory of Matera, so interesting, and Seth Doane is very cute and well mannered, he's quite adorable 😍😊❤

[@marialloyd9527]

Thank you for sharing your beautiful city with the world and your passion to preserve it uniqueness❣

[@kristenalbano2664]

Matera is wonderful and Vito Rondinone of Matera Private Tours is an excellent tour guide!

[@linarubino8208]

Io scrivo in italiano, dico che l'intervista è stata bellissima e Vito Rondinone è stato bravissimo nella splendida spiegazione 👍👏👏

[@Cestmoi_8]

I could read and completely understand this even though I speak English and Spanish only. Ah... Romance Languages. 😂

[@aris1956]

@@Cestmoi_8 On the contrary, for us Italians it is the same in reading something in English or Spanish. You understand much more in reading something than hearing a person speak in that determined language. 😊

[@kellysexton3220]

❤

[@tammyripp998]

We visited Matera last year for a few days during a two week Italian vacation. Wonderful place & plenty of non-cave lodging options (we stayed in an Airbnb).

[@georgeg.7124]

Great story!

[@robertorubino10]

Vito Rondinone of Matera private Tours is an expert and a great tour guide! ❤

[@theck672]

Thank you for this information!

[@josephbellantuono7055]

Went to that city in 2019! Beautiful place with delicious food!

[@JaylenPotts-o7t]

Italy was very special and amazing. 😊😊

[@aris1956]

I would say that Italy was and IS special and amazing ! 😊

[@franko2632]

You can find hostel at 25€ per night up the 1500€ for hotel like you see in the video, same to eat you can find street food from 5€ to 150€ for a fine dining. I can recommend you to come to Matera I live here from 22 years

[@Romafood]

Matera is fantastic. ciao

[@Navigator2166]

Thank you for showing this. My heart pounded so hard at the idea of walking into a place where our species lived 6,000 years ago! Astoundingly beautiful. But I think I would like to stay somewhere modeled after the 1950s vs all the fancy fixin’ of today. For me that would be a distraction.

[@timriehl1500]

This made me imagine selling everything and moving there!

[@___beyondhorizon4664]

Very similar to the caves at Cappadocia chimnes in central Turkey. The landscape there are white washed limestone, people with the museum tickets can explore caves on their own or join a tour. So many cave churches with Byzentine Christ paintings, the Christians were escaping prosecution and hiding in the caves with donkeys, goats. There are modern cave hotels near the town center, it should be slightly cheaper than those in Italy due to the Lira. I stayed in a hostel, the locals are very friendly and kind. Cappadocia is famous for the hot air balloon rides. I took it during my second morning @5am, the next 2 days, all balloon rides were cancelled due to weather conditions. Tourists had to leave without the balloon ride, but authority takes safety as priority.

[@patriciaoreilly8907]

Absolutely beautiful part of the world 😊

[@isabellavalencia8026]

I would have loved to have seen more

[@chrisp1355]

What a beautiful place.

[@whimsicalhamster88]

This place looks fascinating. I can’t wait to visit someday.

[@theobserver1320]

Italien Way of Life. I love it. ❤❤❤

[@ShirleyPotts-ud3nb]

Italy is very special and spiritual

[@myradioon]

The best film depiction of this region is "Christ Stopped at Eboli" (1979) by director Francesco Rosi - based on the memoir by Carlo Levi, who was banished there by the Fascists in the 30's for being an Intellect and Jewish. It was so remote and backwards it was a 'punishment' to live there,

[@Jppx31]

The book was wonderful.

[@lailisima]

A bit sad really to think that it takes nearly USD2,000 to spend the night in a place like this. Tourism for the rich, no homes for the local. Not sure who wins. I have been to Matera so many times and met only less than a handful of locals.

[@DanielPerrea]

I don't think one hotel room is a problem when later on they say there are many abandoned caves...

[@lailisima]

@@DanielPerrea It is not just one... Matera is big tourist complex and none really affordable either.

[@raysprof]

Or if one does a little research, one can stay for 70 euros per night and spend the rest of one's money on vino e cibo. Hiking to the uninhibited caves cost nothing.

[@lailisima]

@@raysprof I don't think you can stay in the Sassi for €70. We paid one of the lowers BnBs and was far from that -- it is not about touring the caves but the juxtaposition of caves were people were nearly starving to now paying nearly 2,000 to stay in one. But yes, smart travellers will always manage

[@donnahibler8374]

Well. I loved ❤ it. If the bed is truly 2024 comfortable, I would try it. Matera eels kinda intriguing.

[@danahardin4647]

I want to go to there

[@thetinkercook5430]

Cappadocia too

[@pibbitybibbity]

It’s beautiful, but I’d be too terrified to stay inside the caves. The entire Italian peninsula is prone to earthquakes. With my claustrophobia and the fear of earthquakes, sleeping in the hotel would not be an option for me.

[@patriciaoreilly8907]

Best you stay at home dear 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@pibbitybibbity]

@@patriciaoreilly8907 I’d still love to visit the city. I know, it might be silly, but I can handle the fear of earthquakes, but not both fears. I’ve lived in California, so I’m acquainted with the ground suddenly moving beneath my feet. 😂

[@riccardomulazzani7436]

You are a pit of misinformation!!!!!!! Stay at home!!!

[@louisianarainwater]

💚💚💚

[@maxlinder5262]

NEVER ..pay$1500.00 a night .in a cave with NO windows for Air ...NO...!!!!! Just my opinion

[@___beyondhorizon4664]

People do it just for social media posts

[@TylerD288]

Don't you want to pay a truckload to stay in a barn? 😂

[@raysprof]

One does not have to and still have a similar experience

[@David-r8k3u]

Going back to the roots I see that's where they originally came from

[@ZarifaMEl-lf3zr]

😮

[@patardell5079]

King James Bible And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. @minute 1:53 the guide at Sassi reveals: "because the rock is very soft . . ."

[@captainnima]

Good to know. Let’s become cavemen again 😅.

[@davanmani556]

Begin

[@CraigHalliday-r8q]

Boungiorno Italiano Belissimo Italiano

[@GormansGG]

Just popped up on you tube from this morning

[@angelamoore8161]

Yes while Africans were attending universities in Timbuktu …. The Europeans were living in caves 😮

[@GodIsOneJesusIsHe]

Can’t be 9,00 years old. The earth is 6,000 years old, read your Bible.

[@carolscholp3659]

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