MATERA - James Bond and the City of Beige

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  • @Nate3417
    @Nate3417 4 года назад +1060

    Finally, the ultimate camouflage.
    Lindybeige in the City of Beige.

  • @justanotherarmchairgeneral4240
    @justanotherarmchairgeneral4240 4 года назад +332

    Fun Fact: Lindy wasn't born with his distinctive beige colour scheme. He evolved that way in order to better blend in with his natural environment of ancient ruins.

  • @ResonantRTS
    @ResonantRTS 4 года назад +265

    The opening is my favourite thing to happen.... just ever

  • @Jesthor
    @Jesthor 4 года назад +446

    Lindybeige presents: The Gentleman's way of avoiding copyright strikes/claims.

    • @yonneye2427
      @yonneye2427 4 года назад +16

      Jesthor. Which he shouldn’t even have to do in the first place,(If RUclips was competent) it should go under fair use for being educational.

    • @bashkillszombies
      @bashkillszombies 4 года назад +9

      @@yonneye2427 He's not a raving communist, and has an audience. Which means he's a bees dick away from being yeeted for no reason. :(

    • @axocopan42
      @axocopan42 4 года назад +14

      @@bashkillszombies Agreed, if there's one thing multibillion dollar corporation and capitalist poster child Google is, it's a communist front. It's only a shame that by calling this out you've doomed us both to the Wisconsin gulags. :(

    • @julianblake8385
      @julianblake8385 3 года назад +1

      @@yonneye2427 RUclips competent, that's an oxymoron right there, mate!

    • @spartacus5950
      @spartacus5950 3 года назад +4

      @@bashkillszombies One of the youtube channels I watched recently had to censor an entire video about an artist in the USSR and he's a commie, but please do go on about the supposed benefits communists have on youtube.

  • @stumbling
    @stumbling 4 года назад +419

    Talks for 19 minutes about people living in caves... "If you've been living under a massive rock"

  • @michaelkittler6276
    @michaelkittler6276 4 года назад +622

    In a hole in the ground there lived an italian. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a Matera hole, and that means comfort.

    • @OptimalOwl
      @OptimalOwl 4 года назад +24

      IDK fam, that hole looks pretty dry and sandy to me.

    • @MrDUneven
      @MrDUneven 4 года назад +44

      I wonder if they too hate adventures.

    • @TheRealNormanBates
      @TheRealNormanBates 4 года назад +52

      So... when does Gandalfini show up?

    • @victoresan
      @victoresan 4 года назад +2

      @Seth Hultkrantz I didn't

    • @jessicascoullar3737
      @jessicascoullar3737 4 года назад +10

      Vizzy Zilla it is the first paragraph of The Hobbit.

  • @awatarasakawiraaji2040
    @awatarasakawiraaji2040 4 года назад +579

    Lindybeige is a good narrator and a good sound effects machine

    • @TheSadButMadLad
      @TheSadButMadLad 4 года назад +29

      Doing a helicopter noise whilst pretending to be hovering over the town is fantastic.

    • @etuanno
      @etuanno 4 года назад +10

      I can listen to him explaining any topic for hours.

    • @kevfullo
      @kevfullo 4 года назад +1

      He can buy a sound effects machine with the advert money from this video. There's about twelve!

    • @samholdsworth3957
      @samholdsworth3957 4 года назад +1

      He's amazing lol

    • @MiguelTyson
      @MiguelTyson 3 года назад

      @@kevfullo 😂😂 wah wah

  • @aharonvarna5992
    @aharonvarna5992 4 года назад +452

    i never quite liked the color beige, but after several years of watching your videos it has warmed to me.

  • @giuseppeperniola8432
    @giuseppeperniola8432 4 года назад +147

    Wow! I live just 15 minutes away from Matera. I'm so happy to see our history and landmarks finally being recognized outside our region. Hope you had a great holiday there Lindy :)

    • @MaterialMenteNo
      @MaterialMenteNo 4 года назад +20

      I'm from Matera and I'm giggling. The video is actually good, even unusually good for RUclips (It's Lindy after all)

    • @Silen00
      @Silen00 4 года назад +3

      Same. :)

    • @GrumpyStormtrooper
      @GrumpyStormtrooper 4 года назад +4

      I always see people bashing the EU but if it wasn't for the Union nominating Matera cultural capital for 2019 not many would know about it, and there wouldn't be a thriving tourism economy.

    • @ultor__
      @ultor__ 4 года назад +6

      @@GrumpyStormtrooper Matera has been mentioned in tourist guides for several decades now. Attributing it's tourist economy to the EU is a fallacy.

    • @giuseppeperniola8432
      @giuseppeperniola8432 4 года назад +8

      @@ultor__ Living in the area, I can assure you that tourism exploded since Matera was nominated as a candidate for cultural capital of 2019. Surely Matera did her own big part and was already known but the EU gave quite the boost in the last years. In fact, even my town which is about 30 km away started to fill up with foreign tourists, just renting a room here to visit Matera, something that never happened before 2018/2017. Non to mention all the EU funds we are still getting to boost tourism (which sadly get misused most of the time).

  • @herlescraft
    @herlescraft 4 года назад +533

    I live in Tuscany and i've never heard of Italy untill it got mentioned in a LINDYBEIGE video

    • @3vimages471
      @3vimages471 4 года назад +8

      Italy?
      Heard of it.

    • @3vimages471
      @3vimages471 4 года назад

      @King Of The Ring Nurburg Ring?

    • @guidor.4161
      @guidor.4161 4 года назад +22

      It'S gonna be famous soon after this video was out, no doubt...

    • @jupp9999
      @jupp9999 4 года назад +11

      Never heard of Italy? which is the country Tuscany is in.. lmfao..

    • @3vimages471
      @3vimages471 4 года назад +25

      @@jupp9999 Are you serious?

  • @petergreg101
    @petergreg101 4 года назад +62

    Lowers voice and whispers conspiratorially 'Do you like...
    buttresses?'
    *sweats intensely

    • @Jj-pm5yv
      @Jj-pm5yv 4 года назад

      🤦🏻‍♂️😂

    • @unrealdev5178
      @unrealdev5178 4 года назад +1

      Got any... flying ones?...

  • @fredygump5578
    @fredygump5578 4 года назад +52

    Property dusputes must have been interesting. I mean, when your neighbor "accidentally" tunnels into your bedroom, or possibly up through the bottom of your cistern....

    • @Pystro
      @Pystro 3 года назад +12

      I Imagine your tunneling wouldn't be all that stealthy. I bet if you started to expand towards someone else's property, they would come over and say "Hey, both of us would probably prefer to not hear each other snoring through our separating wall. Isn't there a different direction you can expand to?"

  • @mrpearguy8455
    @mrpearguy8455 4 года назад +191

    British "Indiana Jones" and the lost city of Beige.

    • @scrubsrc4084
      @scrubsrc4084 4 года назад +23

      Lindiana Beige

    • @alisaurus4224
      @alisaurus4224 4 года назад +11

      *LINDYana Jones

    • @andersaxmark5871
      @andersaxmark5871 4 года назад +4

      Nickylindy Lloyd

    • @isengard1500
      @isengard1500 4 года назад +12

      Lindyana Jones and the Kingdom of the Negative Architecture

    • @Warmaka
      @Warmaka 4 года назад +2

      I like "Lindiana" or "Lloydiana" -Beige

  • @larsruberti
    @larsruberti 4 года назад +67

    17:30 let me try to answer a part of that question as someone with some understanding and skill in drawing, perspective and composition:
    this type of composition
    Makes objects "stack" on top of eachother instead of behind eachother.
    This makes sure that the houses stay easily readable (as apposed to have allot of foreshortening and parts of the building blocked off by other buildings).
    We tend to like images with objects that are easy to interpretate and understand by our brain. This wide angle field of view and "stacked" composition makes the houses more readable than in a normal village or city.
    Many artists are drawn to Italian clifside landscapes like this.
    As an example, look at works by MC Escher, you'll see he is inspired allot by this type of perspective and composition! And he isn't the only one!
    Hope this makes sense.

    • @nagualdesign
      @nagualdesign 3 года назад

      It's irritating when people write _alot,_ but _allot?!_ It's *_a lot._*

    • @larsruberti
      @larsruberti 3 года назад

      @@nagualdesign thanks!

  • @Peterowsky
    @Peterowsky 4 года назад +142

    "There are Seashells in the ceilings to confuse christians."
    Gold.

    • @Eskon2
      @Eskon2 4 года назад +10

      Just for those denying the historicity of Genesis and the flood.

    • @slinky6481
      @slinky6481 3 года назад +6

      It's to test our faith, obviously!
      But seriously, most Christians nowadays accept a much, much older Earth than before. It was really only a medieval misunderstanding that led to the notion of a young Earth. Genesis is even worded in such a way that suggests that the world was already around when God created everything. So it's a matter of interpretation. Doesn't really change anything theologically.

    • @lalystar4230
      @lalystar4230 3 года назад +2

      I still don't get the joke.. xD Why would that confuse Christians? I mean, obviously God intended those seashells to be there to make the limestone no? xD They could also be remnants of the great flood? I mean, I'd imagine the church would be able to come up with some kind of clarification that would stroke with their view of the scriptures and beliefs and all that?

    • @Likexner
      @Likexner 3 года назад +4

      @@lalystar4230 Ideologues will always find _some_ kind of explanation. Its pointless to reason with ideologies.

  • @stumbling
    @stumbling 4 года назад +52

    Baldericci: I have a cunning plan to save the town from the plague, my Lord. We go around town checking if people have caught the plague, and if they've been spared we paint their house white.
    Vipera Nera: Right? And then what happens if they catch the plague after their houses have been painted?
    Baldericci: Well, they usually die, Sir.

    • @Barberserk
      @Barberserk 4 года назад +5

      Upvote for effort.

    • @Kenshiroit
      @Kenshiroit 4 года назад +2

      hahaha that was actually good

    • @deltavee2
      @deltavee2 3 года назад +2

      The adder is black in this one.
      ~ Bindy Leige

  • @irgendwer752
    @irgendwer752 4 года назад +37

    I think I've got part of the answer to why we like cities with predominantly old buildings.
    We like a bit of well structured chaos.
    Make it too plain and it's uninteresting, make it too detailed and we get overwhelmed.
    You see this with furniture as well.
    Wait an hour in a modern doctor's office or in an old furnished room with nothing to do but to look at your surroundings.

  • @Siledas
    @Siledas 4 года назад +345

    "There are seashells in the ceiling to confuse Christians"
    You can't just make jokes like that without any preamble. Now I have to mop up all this tea that I just spit out.

    • @ruben307
      @ruben307 4 года назад +16

      can you explain what seashells have to do with Christians?

    • @krayzoman
      @krayzoman 4 года назад +75

      @@ruben307 Unless I misunderstood the joke, any archaeological evidence of things forming, changing, or moving over vast periods of time (such as seashells turning into limestone that ends up far above modern sea level) goes into the whole Creationism debate. The Christian version puts creation much sooner than the amount of time many of those processes would take.

    • @danielpenaranda5888
      @danielpenaranda5888 4 года назад +48

      Devil puts fosil in strange places so we conclude wrong things like evolution

    • @SyoaranBarker
      @SyoaranBarker 4 года назад +41

      Not all Christians believe what is termed "Young Earth Creationism." Many ascribe to "Old Earth Creationism," and accept the age of Earth and the universe while disputing the explanatory power of the evolutionary model, while others go for "Theistic Evolution" and accept both, believing that evolution happened by/required God's guiding hand. If anything, the YEC's are considered something of an embarrassment by the other two camps, who tend to get along with each other while the YEC's attack everyone not in their bubble.

    • @RowdyRory
      @RowdyRory 4 года назад +3

      Too funny. Very witty.

  • @davideborroni3875
    @davideborroni3875 4 года назад +60

    23:40 Welcome to Italy, where people in tourist information centers barely speak English and/or tell you the basic informations

    • @FedeDiver1
      @FedeDiver1 3 года назад +1

      That's not true at all, in the main tourist destinations there are no problems finding info or communicating...Matera was always a small rural town, and only in the past few years has started welcoming visitors, just give them some time and don't be so melodramatic

    • @davideborroni3875
      @davideborroni3875 3 года назад +1

      @@FedeDiver1 Matera counts 60k citizen, not really a small rural town. In 1993 the city was added on the list of UNESCO world heritage centres and in 2019 it has been European capital of culture. They should keep up with the fame they got.

    • @FedeDiver1
      @FedeDiver1 3 года назад +1

      @@davideborroni3875 Matera is a city and does not represent an entire country...besides, I went there and it looked to me they were managing well, I've also seen other videos of foreneirs who did not have any issue, not sure what happened to this guy but it sounds a bit too extreme

    • @davideborroni3875
      @davideborroni3875 3 года назад +1

      @@FedeDiver1 @23:40 that's what happened to him. Maybe they were just two isolated cases, but their job was to provide tourist information of the town they are located in to a foreign tourist and they both failed...that's quite embarrassing. Anyway, good for you if you've never had any problem

  • @jimmosio
    @jimmosio 4 года назад +144

    "The inability of the region to organise its public transport was impressive."
    Apulians/Lucans: "Yes."

    • @mechjack
      @mechjack 4 года назад +2

      Just saw MC. Escher! Right up round corner!

    • @KoeriKunST
      @KoeriKunST 4 года назад

      I mean, most of public transportation building effort was before the 90's under the DC and PSI rule. It was more of a national government decision than a local one back then (no federalism laws had been implemented by then AFAIK)

    • @rambo8wradio
      @rambo8wradio 4 года назад +5

      Americans: "What?"

  • @TheBradleyClarke
    @TheBradleyClarke 4 года назад +67

    Can we just have a series of LindyBeige dubbed James Bond trailers? With vehicle/gun noises included (done by Lindy)

  • @lorisuprifranz
    @lorisuprifranz 4 года назад +14

    The tourist information centers of my city ( Ravenna, that got the second place during the contest for European Culture Capital) whould have done a way better job. We are less shoody with English and our buses are always on time ...
    I am not believable, am I?
    Yea I dont believe it, either

  • @fredo1070
    @fredo1070 4 года назад +56

    The Gospel According to St Matthew and the Passion of the Christ was filmed there.

  • @Stettafire
    @Stettafire 4 года назад +128

    23:23 Greetings. I am your 0.00000000001% female audience :D

    • @lindybeige
      @lindybeige  4 года назад +119

      I must introduce you to my other female viewer. Chances are you'll have so much in common.

    • @tearoses1959
      @tearoses1959 4 года назад +36

      That must be me then, pleased to meet you.

    • @MSK81
      @MSK81 4 года назад +26

      Apparently there are more of us than one would think. Hello :)

    • @professionalairhead5642
      @professionalairhead5642 4 года назад +19

      Yes, hello. I just found this channel.

    • @bashkillszombies
      @bashkillszombies 4 года назад +14

      Ok, clearly half of you are phony. Bobs and vegana right now as proof.

  • @Akm72
    @Akm72 4 года назад +23

    37:30 Doctor: "Sorry Bob, you've got the plague"
    Bob: "Damn it, now I'm going to have to paint my house beige again! I only just finished painting it white!!"

  • @MolemanITA
    @MolemanITA 4 года назад +54

    And that, folks, is how Minas Tirith was built.

  • @_mwk
    @_mwk 4 года назад +58

    These people were doing Minecraft well before Minecraft...

    • @walrus1074
      @walrus1074 4 года назад +10

      Human history is divided as: Minecraft Era and Pre-Minecraft Era

  • @luminescentcore
    @luminescentcore 4 года назад +59

    As a Brit I can imagine how uncomfortable the weather must be for you

    • @oyblech8671
      @oyblech8671 4 года назад +11

      impressive endurance, it has to be said! I'm italian and I'd just melt on the spot if I were to go this far south.

    • @DucaCremisi
      @DucaCremisi 4 года назад +3

      My grandfather lives in Matera, it's not so unbearable, tho I can see y it would be a bit... harsh I guess

    • @DucaCremisi
      @DucaCremisi 4 года назад +9

      @Lorenzo Panza Don't worry, I know what he meant, I don't live there, in fact I live in Abruzzo.
      I'm half Polish and when I have to travel to see relatives the difference in climate is quite evident.
      I apologize if I intervened badly, it was not my intention to belittle Lindybeige.

    • @joek600
      @joek600 4 года назад +6

      Im Greek it looks like home

    • @tom-qd7mc
      @tom-qd7mc 3 года назад

      Milan is much hotter than Potenza...

  • @alexandersibilio7436
    @alexandersibilio7436 4 года назад +16

    I don't think "legends" ever needed to make sense!!
    In Puglia everyone knows that Ostuni is covered in lime (notorious antibacterial) as protection for its delicate stones
    and to keep them cool during the hot summers!
    I also think we love old towns and villages because they shows us our ingenuity "carved" out of necessity.😉
    which also reminds us of an era when we were able to understand more our environment and make the most out of it.

  • @blandedgear9704
    @blandedgear9704 4 года назад +49

    Skulls all over the temple? Sounds like the Imperium of Man I know.

    • @robinderoos1166
      @robinderoos1166 4 года назад +6

      All thats missing are flying skulls holding candles...

    • @farmerboy916
      @farmerboy916 4 года назад +6

      @@robinderoos1166 Hm... y'know, we could make that happen now if we found a powerful yet small enough drone and programmed it to automatically return to base to recharge at regular intervals. Now all we need is to pipe in chants loud enough to cover up the drone whirring, and we're golden.

    • @ieuanhunt552
      @ieuanhunt552 4 года назад +3

      The explanation as to why the Imperium loves skulls so much is quite wholesome for 40K. Basically it shows that even in its barest form humanity is still beautiful. And if you strip everything away we are all the same underneath.

    • @wytfish4855
      @wytfish4855 4 года назад

      @@ieuanhunt552 so khorne is a closeted human admirer?

    • @ieuanhunt552
      @ieuanhunt552 4 года назад

      @@wytfish4855 as a trophy yes. He is an admirer of anything that puts up a decent fight.

  • @OMGWTFBBQRLY
    @OMGWTFBBQRLY 4 года назад +37

    Lloyd should be in charge of sound effects for every trailer.

  • @davidcyrilbrown
    @davidcyrilbrown 4 года назад +45

    Talking about local transport I was in Cyprus back in the 90's with some Cypriot Friends (handy as I can't speak Greek) While on the local bus, the other passengers (locals) started shouting at the driver, because he was taking a completely different route to the one advertised. Apparently he was making a detour to pick up a few things for his grandmother and needed to deliver them to her.

    • @sir_humpy
      @sir_humpy 4 года назад +9

      I say that's one lucky grandmother to have such an obliging grandchild.

    • @deltavee2
      @deltavee2 3 года назад +1

      Europeans are just so much more relaxed about many things than other parts of the world.

  • @calamusgladiofortior2814
    @calamusgladiofortior2814 4 года назад +8

    I’d imagine the people of Matera were both relieved and slightly insulted that Rome never bothered to conquer them...
    Materan ruler: “Matera will never surrender!”
    Roman tribune: “Sure, whatever. Alright, let’s go boys. Move out.”
    Materan ruler: “Wait. You’re not even going to try conquering us?”
    Roman tribune: “Nope, not worth it. Lucky day for you.”
    Materan ruler: “You guys literally marched hundreds of miles to conquer a bunch of barbaric Gauls and Britons, but you won’t conquer us? What’s wrong with Matera?”
    Roman tribune: “I mean... it’s just a bunch of holes in the ground, isn’t it?”
    Materan ruler: “They’re very nice holes, I will let you know, sir. You’d be lucky to conquer us.”
    Roman tribune: “Nope, sorry. Going to go conquer Egypt instead. At least their beige rocks have got funny animal heads on and such.”

  • @peartart
    @peartart 4 года назад +51

    "And then I had some gelato and stopped griping." Half of this was very Italian of you.

    • @iota-09
      @iota-09 4 года назад

      Now the question is:will he be able to guess which half?

    • @j.mbarlow5952
      @j.mbarlow5952 4 года назад +2

      neither of these things are particularly British

    • @iota-09
      @iota-09 4 года назад

      @@j.mbarlow5952 yet one of the two is also very much not italian

    • @SordoBjorn
      @SordoBjorn 4 года назад

      @@iota-09 Is it griping in the first place (@ second comment)?

    • @iota-09
      @iota-09 4 года назад +1

      @@SordoBjorn if anything, stopping griping.

  • @theamazingengineer1901
    @theamazingengineer1901 4 года назад +42

    I’m still waiting on LindyBond! Licensed to Beige...

  • @Zaysaki
    @Zaysaki 4 года назад +14

    29:57
    "but it was alright, because just across the road in the kiosk, OH JOY, they had the latest issue of playbo- i mean mussolini magazine..."

    • @jacopoarmini7889
      @jacopoarmini7889 4 года назад +7

      That misunderstanding was indeed quite silly! That's a historical magazine, the word Mussolini just happened to be bigger than the title to attract readers.

  • @donna30044
    @donna30044 4 года назад +12

    Why are we so often drawn to views of old communities such as Matera?
    Perhaps the age and organic "togetherness" of such scenes pique something in us that yearns for reminders of community, continuity, and stability -- a connectedness, if you will, of the past, present, and future.
    Maybe we see in these places something which comforts us and gives us hope that our existence is not so fleeting and that something of us will be memorialized for generations centuries ahead.
    Or it may be that there is something in the seeming simplicity of the scene that contrasts appealingly with the complexity, or even absurdity, of the creation of that tableau that intrigues both our intellects and our artistic sensibilities in ways we rarely find in nature -- a self-affirmation of our humanity and humaness found in the order and reason within the seeming chaos.
    Whatever it is which draws our eyes to such scenes and holds us spellbound, it is something we all seem to have, inherited through generation after generation. We do it because we are compelled to by forces and instincts ancient beyond retrievable memory.
    Isn't it wonderful?

  • @AidanMcGhie
    @AidanMcGhie 4 года назад +20

    it's like being punched in the face by a florist hahah

  • @harryedmondson9382
    @harryedmondson9382 4 года назад +56

    I've never clicked on a notification so quickly

    • @theturkey1523
      @theturkey1523 4 года назад

      Same

    • @wellhelodeer2680
      @wellhelodeer2680 4 года назад +4

      I’m not even a hardcore fan but I have to admit I clicked it as soon as I seen it too.

    • @philpexmelnni3834
      @philpexmelnni3834 4 года назад

      Yeah I waited so long for this

    • @JohnyG29
      @JohnyG29 4 года назад

      Do you record your past click times? I assume you must or else how can you be sure?

    • @tomtom21194
      @tomtom21194 4 года назад +1

      @yeoldebiggetee he's pissing blood again

  • @omariscovoador7486
    @omariscovoador7486 4 года назад +10

    It reminds me of some favelas here in brazil, but with a more rocky and beyge looking.

  • @Sharklops
    @Sharklops 4 года назад +17

    6:57 - The tires sync up with the camera frame rate and it looks like the tractor is sliding along the ground. Really tripped me out at first lol

    • @j.mbarlow5952
      @j.mbarlow5952 4 года назад

      the wheels are fake. all their vehicles have holes in the floor so you can pick it up and run, like the Flintstones

    • @Sharklops
      @Sharklops 4 года назад +1

      @@j.mbarlow5952 well now I feel like a yabba dabba fool.

  • @sevenproxies4255
    @sevenproxies4255 4 года назад +9

    Not gonna lie. This really makes the troglodyte lifestyle look appealing.
    Must be so nice not needing to repaint your house every 10-20 years.

  • @hereticdude2788
    @hereticdude2788 4 года назад +7

    Thanks, Lindybeige, you've made me feel like an abomination. I'd take the views of the mountainside over a city (regardless of age) anytime.

  • @noecarrier5035
    @noecarrier5035 4 года назад +8

    Wow. You'd be in serious trouble if you fell down those stairs -- you'd be in need of medical a-cisterns, that's for sure.

  • @jacobwright5542
    @jacobwright5542 4 года назад +13

    Maybe the mini-ramps on the staircase are askew to lessen the gradient and prevent runaway carts.

  • @abdallahmanasrah2317
    @abdallahmanasrah2317 4 года назад +19

    If you ever set foot in a med traditional house, you will feel clearly the supperiority of those huge heatsink of houses.
    Humid and cool in the dry and hot summers, and reasonably balanced and warm in the cold humid winters.
    And when the thermal lag catches up to the weather, you are sure to have a great weather outside, where everyone gathers to share a cup of tea and a few stories, till the heatsink catches up with the weather again, and you are granted a lazy morning with great indoor climate.

    • @abdallahmanasrah2317
      @abdallahmanasrah2317 4 года назад +7

      The only other two good options of a good dwelling space is either to have a highly insulated modern heated and cooled space, or believe it or not, a tent and a some heavy clothing, the structure being extreamly thin breaks the sun and wind and allows you with extreamly low resources to heat and cool yourself with nothing but a small fire, heavy clothing, and regulating your own activities

    • @JesseP.Watson
      @JesseP.Watson 3 года назад +1

      @@abdallahmanasrah2317 Yes, we seem to have forgotten about the advantages of building underground - I was thinking the other day that perhaps the next 'revolution' in homes would be to move underground (so much better for heating and energy efficiency) - it's time someone invented a better way of drilling into rock, we need a nice, quiet plasma-cutter or laser-cutter ... or something that anyone can use to dig undergrounds with... or, at least, that's what I was day dreaming about. :-)

  • @founoe
    @founoe 4 года назад +8

    Tourist Center don't know where the bus stop is or when the bus will be there.
    Tourist Center calls the Bus Company.
    Bus Company doesn't know where the bus stop is or when the bus will be there.
    That's the most Italian thing I've ever heard.

  • @MrDew335
    @MrDew335 4 года назад +20

    It's official: Italy is not part of the real world

    • @arx3516
      @arx3516 3 года назад

      That's the impression you could get by following italian politics.

  • @maybemaeb
    @maybemaeb 4 года назад +23

    Again, you accomplished the incredible feat of making one's tourist footage interesting to watch.
    Hats off.

  • @ScoriacTears
    @ScoriacTears 4 года назад +8

    7:20
    Beige complexity.
    Hiding water from the sun.
    City of grottoes.

  • @broderfoder9348
    @broderfoder9348 4 года назад +14

    A cult adding sculptures of skulls everywhere, would that be a skullt? scult?

    • @DFloyd84
      @DFloyd84 4 года назад +2

      The Imperium of Man.

    • @lloritoovidexequield.8609
      @lloritoovidexequield.8609 4 года назад

      The worshippers of Khorne. Blood for the Blood God, Skulls for the Skull Throne. XD

  • @fats3342
    @fats3342 4 года назад +14

    I know "soft rock" is a perfectly legitimate descriptor, but it's still really funny to hear.

    • @stumbling
      @stumbling 4 года назад

      Status Quo

    • @troublewithweebles
      @troublewithweebles 4 года назад +2

      Anything with a drum kit, electric guitar and a saxophone is probably soft rock.

  • @smoketinytom
    @smoketinytom 4 года назад +20

    Ah yes, the lovely voice of Lindy. Only comparable to Mark Felton, for the countless videos you can keep watching! Might even learn something as you go!

    • @BernardTheMandeville
      @BernardTheMandeville 4 года назад +4

      Drachinifel is up there as well for me

    • @JohnyG29
      @JohnyG29 4 года назад

      Urg...M Felton has an awful voice imo.

    • @smoketinytom
      @smoketinytom 4 года назад +2

      JohnyG29 Well, he’s better than what “History” channel is pumping out.

    • @gwtpictgwtpict4214
      @gwtpictgwtpict4214 4 года назад

      @@smoketinytom Agreed, but he does use the word 'daring' too much. I would argue that anything that involves the potential of being shot at is daring, and WWII basically involved the potential to be shot at so the use of the word is superfluous. A minor point but it bugs me. His content is generally pretty good.

    • @smoketinytom
      @smoketinytom 4 года назад +1

      @@gwtpictgwtpict4214 If that's what bugs you, then you need to check you priorities.

  • @Bready_Player_Bun
    @Bready_Player_Bun 4 года назад +6

    "How do you like being a negative architect?"
    "I hate it."

  • @AvrahamYairStern
    @AvrahamYairStern 3 года назад +7

    Just came back from the new James Bond movie that has finally come out and I just wanted to return to the video to say this again: Matera is absolutely beautiful.

  • @ciarangrey7576
    @ciarangrey7576 4 года назад +19

    who needs billie eilish when lindybeige can do it

  • @PaulTheSkeptic
    @PaulTheSkeptic 4 года назад +6

    You might be surprised. Being punched in the face by a florist doesn't smell much like flowers at all. It does taste kind of like metal.

  • @elkudos6262
    @elkudos6262 4 года назад +5

    Oh, Lindybeige. A man refusing to be even remotely sorry for being so unapologetically English.)
    Like, Subscribe and Share!

  • @Harry-cv3sg
    @Harry-cv3sg 4 года назад +10

    I need a feature-length remake of this film using Lindybeige's cinematic prowess

  • @BreezeBurst
    @BreezeBurst 4 года назад +60

    “There are seashells, to confuse the Christians.” Classic satire

    • @rjfaber1991
      @rjfaber1991 4 года назад +13

      Yes. "to confuse a subsection of creationists" would have been more accurate, but not quite so catchy...

    • @TheRealNormanBates
      @TheRealNormanBates 4 года назад +7

      Robert Faber don’t forget the Muslims! According to the Koran, the Earth is flat and space doesn’t exist!
      Science!

    • @skeeverskeeyo7331
      @skeeverskeeyo7331 4 года назад +2

      This cracked me up

    • @galenusv7831
      @galenusv7831 4 года назад +7

      How so? Nicolas Steno, catholic bishop of the 17th century was one of the fathers of paleonthology and he observed the fossils of sea creatures in soil. Athanasius Kircher too (catholic priest, 17th century). And they were one of the first to say that there was ocean in those places they found the fossils. So?

    • @Somewekesa
      @Somewekesa 4 года назад +6

      @@galenusv7831 How so??? Although you provide information about fossils and their origin, most creationists don't feel that they matter as facts.

  • @fus132
    @fus132 4 года назад +7

    29:47 Did a quick map search. The name is Chiesa del Purgatorio (Church of the Purgatory). Direct East, slightly North from the unfinished castle.

  • @BigBadBlackWallPaper
    @BigBadBlackWallPaper 4 года назад +24

    i live in Mardin a city from Turkey and there is a neighborhood looking like this city and they are beige too and they have caves in their houses too and people still live in there. i always wondered why my city is at very high place thank you for educating me :). sorry for bad english

    • @bluemountain4181
      @bluemountain4181 4 года назад +3

      While I was in Turkey I went to Derinkuyu near Kayseri which has a very impressive underground city. I think there must be quite a lot in the mountainous regions of Anatolia.

  • @riverbank7971
    @riverbank7971 4 года назад +6

    cream

  • @johntowner1893
    @johntowner1893 4 года назад +14

    First I guessed 1842, then I realised we were talking about Italy, and changed my guess to 1952.
    That’s not meant to be a joke, honestly that’s what I thought.

    • @iota-09
      @iota-09 4 года назад +1

      A sound reasoning

    • @jorehir
      @jorehir 3 года назад

      It's not about Italy as much as that very specific part of Italy.

  • @BamBamBigelow..
    @BamBamBigelow.. 4 года назад +6

    Museum: 1960! I understand why Italian government was embarrassed about the living conditions....

    • @farmerboy916
      @farmerboy916 4 года назад +4

      Yeah, well, it's a lot harder to update your plumbing when you live in a mountain rather than a wood house.

  • @haydenhoes12
    @haydenhoes12 4 года назад +5

    29:40 "slighty off white"
    you mean... like beige?

  • @TacticalSandals
    @TacticalSandals 4 года назад +5

    I cant speak for everyone but personally I like how it looks because it looks like the City Planner was M.C Esher.

  • @MrGonzonator
    @MrGonzonator 4 года назад +21

    25:00 Is that the Cistern Chapel?

    • @its1110
      @its1110 4 года назад

      Fooooooooooo...

  • @toothedacorn4724
    @toothedacorn4724 4 года назад +3

    Given there is stuff built outside of the cave (positive architecture) and stuff inside the cave (negative architecture) does that make it neutral architecture?

    • @alisaurus4224
      @alisaurus4224 4 года назад +1

      A statistician would see no architecture at all. Maybe that’s how the Romans missed it-their survey scouts were statisticians

    • @toothedacorn4724
      @toothedacorn4724 4 года назад

      @@alisaurus4224 maybe it was just the romans hatred of scouting

  • @cinbellextratempus8153
    @cinbellextratempus8153 4 года назад +6

    Finish in search of hannibal bro

  • @jacopomangini3036
    @jacopomangini3036 4 года назад +9

    If anyone is interested in Materan (and Lucanian, and South Italian in general) culture in the 50s, read Ernesto De Martino's works: he did field research in the area, and in his diary (not sure if the english translation of his book "Sud e Magia" has his diary included) he talks about, among other things, the horrible living conditions in the Sassi in the early 1950s.

  • @Just_lift_anyone
    @Just_lift_anyone 4 года назад +8

    My day has been improved already:)

  • @Marcus_McCormick11
    @Marcus_McCormick11 4 года назад +3

    I really hate how youtube has started adding adverts to every video automatically.

  • @guidodelpapa3875
    @guidodelpapa3875 4 года назад +2

    I moved to Matera on February (right before the lockdown) and the Sassi keep impressing me, even if I take a walk almost every day through its alleys and narrow passages... and I keep discovering new ones. There's a part of the Sassi that is closed off (the southernmost part), but for some reason the metal door and planks that blocked the way was open a few weeks ago, so it was nice to visit yet another part of the city that used to be off limits. Now it's closed again :/
    Btw, the path leading to the other side of the valley was reopened on July, after 3 years of being closed due to safety concerns. It takes about 1h to get to the top of the other side, where you can visit the caves/houses and churches carved into the mountain.
    And you're right about public transportation, it's quite inefficient, but even private companies have a very limited offer of destinations and weird schedules. I don't own a car, so to leave the city I need to take the 2h train to Bari (the closest city with an airport, although there are buses directly to the airport).
    I still cannot find any way of getting to Castelmezzano and Pietrapetrosa by public transportation as a day trip, and not even to Craco, which is even closer. I might have to take a guided tour departing from Matera.

  • @RedK11
    @RedK11 4 года назад +4

    6:53 crazy how fast that was going considering the wheels weren't moving

  • @Miata822
    @Miata822 4 года назад +2

    Fascinating. My experiences with Italian rail have been much the same. Once in the '70s a bomb stopped my train not far from there. People forget there were lots of random bombs all over Europe back then.

    • @arx3516
      @arx3516 3 года назад

      You mean IRA, Red Brigades, ETA and corsican terrorists right?

  • @robinderoos1166
    @robinderoos1166 4 года назад +5

    Ooh! A deathcult who put skulls everywhere! I must go there, for the Emperor!

  • @BenjaminEmm
    @BenjaminEmm 4 года назад +2

    Christ almighty! 8 adverts... 8?! Playing 2 adverts per interruption? It’s rather hard to appreciate the content of the video when every 5 minutes or so I’m being blasted about the latest Hollywood action movie and buying a new car.

    • @stevshaboba7476
      @stevshaboba7476 4 года назад

      It's 2020 who doesn't use adblock

    • @BenjaminEmm
      @BenjaminEmm 4 года назад

      @@stevshaboba7476 People using the RUclips mobile app, it's 2020 afterall.

    • @gwtpictgwtpict4214
      @gwtpictgwtpict4214 4 года назад

      @@BenjaminEmm Well if you use the RUclips app you're going to get the ads. I watched this on a PC using the Brave browser and a hosts file. Zero adverts, your choice.

    • @BenjaminEmm
      @BenjaminEmm 4 года назад

      GWTPict GWTPict I also use the Brave browser, in fact I’m a Brave verified creator. But the RUclips app is just the superior platform to mobile, when creators don’t put in so many ads.

  • @zachariaszut
    @zachariaszut 4 года назад +5

    The City of Beige... a collection of enlarged entrances to... cisterns. How lively is that? How refreshing!

  • @francescolella4224
    @francescolella4224 4 года назад +2

    I actually live in Matera, I see this everyday

  • @lanmarknetworking3034
    @lanmarknetworking3034 4 года назад +8

    The ONLY appropriate answer to the question:
    "What color should my ATX case be??"

  • @JasonLaneZardoz
    @JasonLaneZardoz 4 года назад +2

    I went there in about 2015, the whole region of Basilicata is underrated and unexplored. Potenza, the capital is well worth a visit. Very interesting public transport system, comprised of a massive escalator system. Also home to some of the most attractive ancient Greek coinage

  • @techpriest8965
    @techpriest8965 4 года назад +10

    1960 hehe. Well, life in the Mediterranean countries was rather simple. Some would say romantic. Lack of heavy industry and focus on farming, fishing and livestock. Grapes and olives. And poetry.
    Across the Adriatic sea, in Croatia there are many preserved houses that display similar tools, furniture and setup. Well, not exactly like these ones in the caves but you know what I mean.

    • @Poldovico
      @Poldovico 3 года назад +1

      1960 was the economic boom, following the post-war reconstruction and taking advantage of the heavy industry the fascists had built up for their war effort.
      The italian 1960 were Vespa, Fiat 500 and giant blocky concrete apartment buildings painted funny colours ruining the coastines.

    • @dj_koen1265
      @dj_koen1265 3 года назад

      Life was better then in those peaceful parts of the world

  • @Azaghal1988
    @Azaghal1988 4 года назад +2

    I was fairly close with my guess of 1955, mainly because of the buildup and the cooking-place that didn't look that old to me^^

  • @Gizmomadug
    @Gizmomadug 4 года назад +3

    You are in a comfortable tunnel like hall.
    To the east is a round green door.
    You see:
    a wooden chest
    Gandalf. Gandal is carrying a curious map.

  • @deetvleet
    @deetvleet 4 года назад +4

    The use of undeground cisterns for water storage couldn't help but remind me of the Fremen of Dune

  • @thecasualfront7432
    @thecasualfront7432 4 года назад +2

    This has big 'forced to look at someone's holiday pics' energy.

  • @nanoreaper5002
    @nanoreaper5002 4 года назад +6

    "It's oh so Beige" best line in the whole video

  • @lifeschool
    @lifeschool 4 года назад +2

    What do you call a city that is turning beige? Beijing.

  • @ryanchristensen5266
    @ryanchristensen5266 4 года назад +4

    This is my favorite Dark Souls city.

  • @knightshousegames
    @knightshousegames 4 года назад +2

    I think the appeal of the view of a city like that is that it straddles the line between amazing man made technological marvel and something natural and organic. It's a technological marvel because though rather low tech, it showcases elegant designs specifically adapted to their environment, that through a sort of natural selection have managed to survive since time immemorial. But at the same time, it has that organic feeling precisely because it wasn't meticulously planned out and instead sort of got thrown together catch as catch can, from the landscape itself, with the patterns that emerge from the layout of the buildings shaped directly by nature itself in a way.

  • @ReidBallardIII
    @ReidBallardIII 4 года назад +3

    Lindybeige going on about tunneling into the hill struck up a strong desire to play Minecraft in me

  • @herlescraft
    @herlescraft 4 года назад +1

    Wow, I did some mandatory work experience in a turist information center back in my "high school" days and transportation was basicaly the second most asked thing. I find it stange that they were not able to help you, I'm sorry for the bad impression :(

  • @lllPlatinumlll
    @lllPlatinumlll 4 года назад +3

    Oh yeah, we killed that Aragonese Count, we really liked having a nice warm place to go, so we really tried hard to get rid of them so we could all move back in.

  • @CarthagoMike
    @CarthagoMike 4 года назад +3

    Ah yes, that ending advice reminded me of when I climbed mount Vesuvio, many years ago. I was with a travel group, and one of the ladies was wearing high heels.
    She tried, I give her that, but needless to say she never reached the top.

  • @SIC66SIC66
    @SIC66SIC66 4 года назад +2

    I think we are attracted to old, unplanned cities like this, because we normally live in new, planned cities.

  • @JonTanOsb
    @JonTanOsb 4 года назад +1

    That head stone, er, stone head, was spooky at night.
    Bond in beige. If tuxedos come in colours other that black and white, maybe you can get a beige one.
    Jon in rural BC, Canada

  • @Perktube1
    @Perktube1 4 года назад +4

    Seashells in the ceiling to confuse Christians. Funny, but what does he mean?

    • @alisaurus4224
      @alisaurus4224 4 года назад +3

      Some varieties of Creationists believe that fossils are not real (becauee the earth is only 6000 years old) and Satan put fossils around as a test of their faith. Yes, really.

    • @nicholasflamelza2673
      @nicholasflamelza2673 Год назад

      Here's a link to another RUclips video that responds, albeit indirectly, to the comment about the seashells. No snark, just something to think about.
      ruclips.net/video/3j4kQ5AixwE/видео.html

  • @Perktube1
    @Perktube1 4 года назад +1

    0:53 - That's a lotta beige.
    Quite the contrast to Greece.
    16:41 - Wow, quite the breakfast nook.
    29:50 - Games Workshop wants to investigate your location.
    30:06 - like being punched in the face by a florist. 🤣😂

  • @AvrahamYairStern
    @AvrahamYairStern 4 года назад +13

    "Appearance in James Bond films, and LINDYBEIGE VIDEOS!" ahhh yes, I think we can all agree Lindybeige videos are much more valuable. 😂