Modern living in the ancient caves of Matera, Italy

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  • Опубликовано: 10 ноя 2024

Комментарии • 56

  • @FrancescoManicone-o4o
    @FrancescoManicone-o4o Месяц назад +12

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

  • @marialloyd9527
    @marialloyd9527 Месяц назад +19

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

  • @johnclement9370
    @johnclement9370 Месяц назад +15

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

  • @kristenalbano2664
    @kristenalbano2664 Месяц назад +23

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

  • @linarubino8208
    @linarubino8208 Месяц назад +17

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

    • @CestLePanda
      @CestLePanda Месяц назад +3

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

    • @aris1956
      @aris1956 Месяц назад +4

      @@CestLePanda 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
      @kellysexton3220 Месяц назад +2

  • @georgeg.7124
    @georgeg.7124 Месяц назад +10

    Great story!

  • @tammyripp998
    @tammyripp998 Месяц назад +8

    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).

  • @robertorubino10
    @robertorubino10 Месяц назад +5

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

  • @josephbellantuono7055
    @josephbellantuono7055 Месяц назад +2

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

  • @theck672
    @theck672 Месяц назад +4

    Thank you for this information!

  • @whimsicalhamster88
    @whimsicalhamster88 Месяц назад +7

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

  • @chrisp1355
    @chrisp1355 Месяц назад +1

    What a beautiful place.

  • @theobserver1320
    @theobserver1320 Месяц назад +8

    Italien Way of Life. I love it. ❤❤❤

  • @JaylenPotts-o7t
    @JaylenPotts-o7t Месяц назад +5

    Italy was very special and amazing. 😊😊

    • @aris1956
      @aris1956 Месяц назад

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

  • @Navigator2166
    @Navigator2166 Месяц назад

    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
    @timriehl1500 Месяц назад +5

    This made me imagine selling everything and moving there!

  • @franko2632
    @franko2632 Месяц назад +2

    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

  • @patriciaoreilly8907
    @patriciaoreilly8907 Месяц назад +3

    Absolutely beautiful part of the world 😊

  • @Romafood
    @Romafood Месяц назад +4

    Matera is fantastic. ciao

  • @isabellavalencia8026
    @isabellavalencia8026 Месяц назад +4

    I would have loved to have seen more

  • @___beyondhorizon4664
    @___beyondhorizon4664 Месяц назад +10

    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.

  • @myradioon
    @myradioon Месяц назад +5

    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
      @Jppx31 9 дней назад

      The book was wonderful.

  • @ShirleyPotts-ud3nb
    @ShirleyPotts-ud3nb Месяц назад

    Italy is very special and spiritual

  • @lailisima
    @lailisima Месяц назад +8

    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
      @DanielPerrea Месяц назад +2

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

    • @lailisima
      @lailisima Месяц назад

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

    • @raysprof
      @raysprof Месяц назад

      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
      @lailisima Месяц назад

      @@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

  • @maxlinder5262
    @maxlinder5262 Месяц назад +12

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

    • @___beyondhorizon4664
      @___beyondhorizon4664 Месяц назад +1

      People do it just for social media posts

    • @TylerD288
      @TylerD288 Месяц назад +1

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

    • @raysprof
      @raysprof Месяц назад +1

      One does not have to and still have a similar experience

  • @louisianarainwater
    @louisianarainwater Месяц назад +2

    💚💚💚

  • @donnahibler8374
    @donnahibler8374 Месяц назад

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

  • @ZarifaMEl-lf3zr
    @ZarifaMEl-lf3zr Месяц назад +1

    😮

  • @pibbitybibbity
    @pibbitybibbity Месяц назад +5

    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
      @patriciaoreilly8907 Месяц назад +3

      Best you stay at home dear 😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @pibbitybibbity
      @pibbitybibbity Месяц назад +2

      @@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
      @riccardomulazzani7436 Месяц назад

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

  • @danahardin4647
    @danahardin4647 Месяц назад +2

    I want to go to there

  • @thetinkercook5430
    @thetinkercook5430 Месяц назад +1

    Cappadocia too

  • @David-r8k3u
    @David-r8k3u Месяц назад

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

  • @captainnima
    @captainnima Месяц назад +4

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

  • @davanmani556
    @davanmani556 Месяц назад

    Begin

  • @CraigHalliday-r8q
    @CraigHalliday-r8q 22 дня назад

    Boungiorno Italiano Belissimo Italiano

  • @GormansGG
    @GormansGG Месяц назад

    Just popped up on you tube from this morning

  • @angelamoore8161
    @angelamoore8161 Месяц назад

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

  • @ebonymystery
    @ebonymystery Месяц назад

    The ladt shall be first

  • @carolscholp3659
    @carolscholp3659 Месяц назад +1

    You can sta

  • @GodFearingg
    @GodFearingg Месяц назад

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