Sassi di Matera 2

 In the 1950's, as part of a policy to clear the extreme poverty of the Sassi, the government of Italy used force to relocate most of the population of the Sassi to new public housing in the developing modern city nearby.

We had another great lunch! Have I said the food is sooooo goooood here?!?!?!?!?

Until the late 1980's, the Sassi was still considered an area of poverty, since its dwellings were, and in most cases still are, uninhabitable and dangerous.

(to be continued)