The Longest Day
La Bruna with the Materani
This is our most intense and longest experience: an entire day, from dawn to late night, inside the feast of the Madonna della Bruna, Matera's patron saint.
You live the shepherds' procession at dawn, the wait in the streets, the parade of the papier-mâché triumphal float and, as evening falls, the most powerful and moving moment: the crowd's ritual assault and destruction of the float, a gesture the people of Matera experience as an act of devotion rather than mere festivity.
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Other experiences
Light in the Bread Caves
Christmas in the Sassi
A procession of lights through the alleys of the Sassi, among ancient ovens and the scent of fresh bread.
Light in the Bread Caves
Following the Comet
The night-trekking variant: we leave the Sassi for the Murgia plateau, with torches and lanterns, to a viewpoint over the city.
Matinate of the Neighborhood
Matera's Carnevale
Masks, folk music and the pig-slaughter ritual: Matera's neighborhood Carnevale, experienced from within.