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Cave House Museum

A cave home furnished as a peasant family left it in the 1950s, with beds, tools and a stable for the mule.

Photo: Superchilum · CC BY-SA 4.0
Open
Every day
Price
Paid
Time Needed
30 minutes
Address
Vico Solitario 11, 75100 MateraDirections
Getting There
In Sasso Caveoso.

Why Go

The house shows how up to a dozen people and their animals shared one cave, with a cistern for rainwater and a manure pit used as fertilizer, and how hard life in the Sassi was.

Nearby in Matera

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