Alberobellofrom Roma

Matera and Alberobello Private Day Tour from Rome

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Description

Matera it's one of the oldest towns in the world, having been continuously inhabited since the Neolithic age. That's roughly 7,000 years !! In the 1950s Matera was a town forgotten by the Italian government. Eventually it was coerced into doing something about the people who lived here in appaling conditions, and built a new town nearby before moving the whole town out of their prehistoric cave dwellings. Alberobello, in the region of Puglia in Southern Italy, is a strange and picturesque destination. The small town has been included in the UNESCO world heritage site. Looking like igloos, constructed out of pure stone, the beehive-shape structures, have origins that dates back to the 15th century and maybe older. The trulli, found nowhere else in the world, are built of local limestone.

Highlights

Tour a piedi
Weather Dependent - Low
Tour di un giorno intero
Tour culturali
Bus turistici
Tour in auto di lusso
Tour storici
Giri turistici privati
Privati e di lusso
Gite di un giorno

What makes this experience special

Language guide

Inglese, Italiano, Spagnolo

Transfer included

Raccolta in hotel / indirizzo

What's included

Included

Entrance tickets at the "rupestre" Church
Pick-up and drop off with luxury transportation and private chauffeur
Free time in Alberobello
Private tour leader at your disposal (choose the language on the checkout)
Entrance tickets in an ancient typical house
Walking tour with private professional guide in Matera

Not included

Food and Beverages;
Gratuities. If you are satisfied with the service, a gratuity is customary.

Itinerary

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It’s one of the most unique and spectacular places in Italy or anywhere in the world.Until the 1950s, Matera was a source of shame for Italy, a place of poverty, malaria and high rates of infant mortality, where people lived in caves without electricity, running water or sewage. Carlo Levi’s book "Christ Stopped at Eboli" raised awareness of the desperate conditions people were living in and about half of the 30,000 population were moved to new homes in the modern part of the city between 1953 and 1968. Matera is located in a remote corner of Southern Italy in the small region Basilicata. It’s not the easiest place to reach which is why it has managed to remain relatively unknown, especially to foreign tourists, although since it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1993 visitor numbers are slowly growing and many of the caves have been transformed into stylish hotels and restaurants. Don't miss to visit Matera!
Admission included
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2. Alberobello is a fascinating place to visit, above all because of the trulli, the traditional dome shaped buildings made from the local stone. Trulli is a word that derives from the Greek "tholos" (trans: "dome"), the typical shape of the buildings. Each whitewashed “trullo” is built without an lime or cement, and has a conical roof on the outside, which is dome shaped inside, and consists of a square central compartment that communicates through arcades with the kitchen and other rooms. The Trulli were strategically built to throw off the government to hide under the law and evade taxes, so they were meant to look like an “uninhabited settlement”. For this reason, the Trulli were built without mortar so they could easily be disassembled quickly if needed. You will see trulli throughout the countryside of the region but there are more in Alberobello than anywhere else (more than 1000) and because of this the town is now a listed UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Admission included

Useful information

Accessibile in sedia a rotelle I neonati e i bambini piccoli possono essere portati in carrozzina o passeggino Animali di servizio ammessi Sono disponibili trasporti pubblici nelle vicinanze I neonati devono sedere in grembo a un adulto Sono disponibili seggiolini specifici per neonati I trasporti sono accessibili in sedia a rotelle Adatto a tutti i livelli di forma fisica Customers with physical limitations can have problems walking on eneven ground.