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Excursion to the Gravina di Matera and the Bat Cave
Matera, Italy
$47.08
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Overview
The excursion to Gravina di Matera and the Bat Cave offers breathtaking views along a 20 km stretch from the city of Matera, a UNESCO World Heritage site known for its historic Sassi. This immersive tour showcases the stunning landscapes of the Murgia Materana Regional Park while exploring unique historical sites.
- 🏞️ Follow the stream along the ravine's ridge, taking in the dramatic landscapes of the Murgia Materana Regional Park.
- 🕍 Visit the rock church of San Nicola all'Ofra, featuring rooms carved into the cliff that connect through tunnels, stairways, and cisterns across three levels.
- 🦇 Explore the ancient Bat Cave, one of the oldest sites of human life in the area, with corridors that serve as a breeding ground for flying mammals.
- 💎 Discover the legend of King Barbarossa's hidden treasure, intertwined with the history revealed through archaeological research in the cave.
- 🔍 View significant Paleolithic tools and fossils, including remains of extinct animals like the cave bear, found by archaeologist Domenico Ridola.
- 🚐 Pickup from your location is included, ensuring a convenient start to your adventure.
- 👨🏫 An English-speaking human tour guide will accompany you, providing insights and stories throughout the journey.
- 🗺️ The tour lasts for approximately 3 hours, allowing ample time to soak in the rich history and natural beauty.
- ♿ Wheelchair accessible, making it easy for everyone to enjoy this historical and scenic experience.
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Excursion to the Gravina di Matera and the Bat Cave
Pickup included
Pickup included
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 3 hours
- Pick-up
- Private transportation
Meeting point
Easily reachable via the Matera Sud road exit of the SS7.
Return details
Easily reachable via the Matera Sud road exit of the SS7.
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This ravine of karst origin and carved over time by its torrent extends for almost 20 kilometres, from the foot of the city of Matera, made famous for its Sassi (houses dug into the calcarenite and used for millennia by the locals) and declared a world heritage site by UNESCO. The ravine rich in caves, once strategically inhabited by the local population, flows southwards and touches the town of Montescaglioso, then flows into the Bradano river and finally flows into the Ionian Sea. We will go up the path of the stream along the ridge of one side of the ravine, enjoying the landscapes of the Murgia Materana Regional Park.
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The journey continues and reaches the rock church of San Nicola all'Ofra, a farmhouse with its rooms dug into the cliff that communicate with each other: tunnels, stairways, cisterns, churches, frescoes, developing on 3 levels of height. The cluster of caves overlooks the ravine of Matera and the stream that crosses it. A very suggestive place, in a breathtaking landscape, where the steep rocky walls also represent the typical habitat for the rare black stork, a wonderful bird at risk of extinction, which for some years has sensationally returned to nesting in the Lucanian territory.
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A complex of karst caves composed of large entrances and long, narrow tunnels, an important breeding site for fascinating flying mammals. In this place where research had already previously been carried out to find the legendary treasure of King Barbarossa, in the 19th century the local archaeologist Domenico Ridola found Paleolithic tools, ceramics, tombs with skeletons and fossils of extinct animals: such as the ancient ox and the 'cave bear. Today exhibited in the Domenico Ridola National Archaeological Museum of Matera:
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Excursion to the Gravina di Matera and the Bat Cave
Matera, Italy
$47.08
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
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