The Stone City - Matera, Italy

The stories about Matera range from literature, with the famous novel by Carlo Levi Cristo stopped in Eboli, which denounces the miserable living conditions in the Sassi, to the most recent history of redemption and rebirth of these neighborhoods, which from "shame of Italy" have become UNESCO Heritage and European Capital of Culture, up to popular legends such as that of the Madonna della Bruna, protector of the city.