Eight years in the making, the just-opened Vetera Matera is the latest regenerative hospitality project in Italy’s Basilicata region—and it’s a gorgeous love letter to the ancient city around it.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning writer/podcaster, I've been to 100+ countries. Matera, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata, has been ...

Located just off piazza San Pietro Caveoso, conveniently positioned on one of the main roads at the edge of the old city, amid the fantastical caves that excite Matera's frenzied fans, this lodge lies ...

Once known for their squalid living conditions, the prehistoric limestone warrens have been repurposed as lodgings, bars, and artist workshops. Would staying there feel extraordinary or tasteless?

Matera is one of the most ancient cities in the world and its territory contains the evidence of human settlements as from the Palaeolithic times. The Sassi districts, World Heritage site, are the ...