Bus shuttle services for transfers from and to Matera to:
Bari airport or station;
Ferrandina station;
Alberobello;
Metaponto;
and chilometric fares.
Bus shuttle services for transfers from some destinations

Shuttle snc was founded in August 2005 by two young friends who wanted to provide a wide series of tourist services and to become a reference point for individuals and/or societies needing transportation means for their spare times and business.....read

Matera overlooks the Sassi declared to be world heritage since 1993. The origins of the first human settlements can be dated back to pre-history when nomadic peoples found refuge in the caves which progressively became real homes.
Throughout the centuries the Sassi’s town has been conquered by Longobards, Saracens and then Normans and Svevi. Old Matera is one of the examples of fortified barycentric acropolis.
In the high Middle Ages there began to delineate the urban set of the Sassi districts.
After the occupation of the caves and the following fortification of the Civita, other slips and dwellings begin to be built.
If you walk through the Sassi, you can notice that the several dwellings do not have an established architecture and each dwelling is on a level different from the other......read

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