The truth about Italy's caves town, Matera

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Universally known as the city of Rocks ('sassi' in Italian), Matera, a small town in Basilicata, south Italy, has an appealing charm that over the years has inspired artists and writers, from poet Giovanni Pascoli and Carlo Levi, who described the rough and wild nature of these places in his famous work "Christ Stopped at Eboli", up to directors such as Pier Paolo Pasolini and Mel Gibson, who shot here his film The Passion of the Christ.
Why did all them came to this place? It is a unique city in the world, with a modern side and an old one whose architecture gives the traveler an incredible sensation of jumping in a very ancient past.

Fly like an angel! Discover the best Bungee Jumping places in Italy

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What is like feeling the empty below your feet and the wind on your face while passing from a mountain peak to another like a bird? And what is like facing the loftiness jumping off a cliff headfirst?

If you love extreme sports there is the next stop of our travel across the most fascinating destinations of Italy: Pietrapertosa, on the “Dolomites of south Italy”, the base of the Angel Flight, and Mosso, in northern Italy, one of the most requested Bungee Jumping centers in the country.

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Pietrapertosa is one of the villages included in the park of the Lucan Dolomites, the mounts so called because their peaks remember the more famous Dolimites of the Alps.