Casa Grotta del Casalnuovo
MuseumMateraAbout 25 minutes
A cave dwelling left furnished as it was when families, and their animals, lived in one room here into the 1950s. Ten minutes and cheap, and it does more to make sense of the Sassi than any amount of walking above them.
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