Cave house
Cave house c’era una volta
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Sassi di Matera
Welcome to Cave house C‘era una volta
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The “Cave house C’era una volta“ is a rock dwelling located in the Sasso Barisano neighborhood of Matera, where Mr. Eustachio Rizzi and his sons created an environment that witnesses domestic life in the Materan civilization until the end of the 1960s.
The artworks are tuff sculptures representing the life, arts, and crafts of Matera‘s Sassi.
The “Cave house C’era una volta” is carved into calcareous rock with only the entrance being built with a door and window to allow air circulation and light penetration inside.
It consists of three rooms: a kitchen area with a small table in the center, a stable with a donkey used for transportation to surrounding fields, pigs and chickens housed indoors due to limited outdoor space; finally, a loft area containing a double bed, crib with baby and an improvised sanitation area.
Artists expressed their emotions through symbolized faces that depict struggles encountered during past lives.
Due to high infant mortality rates at this time period families still had around six-eight children despite it.
Only after many years of abandonment did people return thanks to new conservation laws resulting from evacuating Caveoso and Barisano areas entirely by 1952 sanitary measures.
The Rizzi family invites everyone to appreciate this unique historical place reflecting on how people lived their daily lives once upon a time in this city.
Mr. Rizzi is also an author, in addition to the works present in the Cave house C’era una volta, he has Sassi in miniature that can be visited for free a few meters from the house.
How to visit the Cave house C‘era una volta
In via Fiorentini With tickets on the spot
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Ticket price 2.50
Free minors
Opening time
Open every day
9.00-18.00 Winter time
9.00 -20.00 Summer time
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Contacts
Contatti
Map
Histoic Center Map
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- The Casalnuovo cave house is an indispensable stop for those who want to know the recent history of Matera and find out how the inhabitants of the Sassi lived
- The Museo Laboratorio della Civiltà Contadina in Matera, is a museum and cultural center that focuses on the history and traditions of rural life in the Basilicata region.
- The Vicinato Cave House is a typical cave house, carved into the rock, with the rooms that characterize the ancient houses of the Sassi of Matera.
- La casa Grotta C'era una volta è un sito rupestre situato nel Sasso Barisano, dove hanno ricreato un ambiente che testimonia la vita domestica anni 50
- The Cistern house is one of the most interesting attractions of the Sassi, one of the ancient cave-houses dug into the limestone rock of this city.
- The Narrator Cave House is a unique dwelling, completely carved into the rock, which represents the testimony of the civilization of the Murgia
