Matera Overnight: Sassi B&B, Walking Tour & Lucanian Meal

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Duration2d

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Sleep Inside Matera's Ancient Stone Neighborhoods

You get one night in a B&B inside the Sassi, a 2-hour guided walk through the carved stone neighborhoods with entry to a rock church and a furnished cave house, breakfast, and a traditional Lucanian meal for two. The tour handles the route and the history; you handle the rest of the evening and morning on your own schedule.

Step-by-step itinerary

Day 1 — Arrival and overnight in Matera

Arrive in Matera
Check in at charming B&B
Enjoy evening at leisure
Stay overnight in Sassi district

Day 2 — Sassi walking tour and local meals

Have sweet breakfast at café
Join 2-hour guided Sassi tour
Visit Sant'Antonio Abate church
Explore typical cave house
Enjoy traditional Lucanian lunch

The Experience

The Sassi of Matera is built into a cliff face, and you'll be sleeping inside it. Your B&B sits in the heart of the district—not near it, in it—which means stepping out your door puts you on the same narrow stone streets where people lived in cave houses centuries ago. The first evening is yours to wander at your own pace, grab an espresso, sit on a terrace and watch the light change on the pale limestone.

The next morning, after breakfast, a guide meets you for a 2-hour walking tour through the two main neighborhoods: Caveoso and Barisano. You'll move through alleys so tight you can touch both walls, past doorways carved straight into the rock, and stop at Sant'Antonio Abate, a church hewn entirely from stone. Then you step inside a casa grotta—a furnished cave house—to see how families actually lived here: one room for sleeping, one for animals, one for storage, all underground. Your guide explains the system of cisterns and channels that kept water flowing through the district. It's not a museum presentation; it's a walk through someone's former home, and the scale of it hits different when you're standing in the actual space.

Lunch or dinner (depending on your preference) happens at a local restaurant and features traditional Lucanian dishes—the regional cuisine of Basilicata. You'll eat what people here have eaten for generations, not a tourist version of it. The package also includes a 10% voucher at MòVado Food & Drink if you want to taste local products or grab a drink on your own time. All the practical details—your B&B address, the restaurant location, exact meeting times—arrive once you book, so there's no scrambling to figure out logistics on arrival.

What’s included

One night for two people in a double room at a B&B in the Sassi district, breakfast, a traditional Lucanian lunch or dinner for two, a 2-hour guided walking tour of Caveoso and Barisano, entrance to Sant'Antonio Abate rock-hewn church, entry to a furnished casa grotta museum, and a 10% discount voucher at MòVado Food & Drink for local products or a drink.

Good to know

Easy physical levelPublic transport nearbyNot for heart conditionsNot for back problems

Operated by Martulli Viaggi

Is this one for you?Right for travelers who want to sleep in the Sassi itself rather than visit as a day trip, and who'd rather have the tour, meals and accommodation sorted than spend time booking each piece separately.