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Extract from the Matera Travel Guides:
The town of
MATERA
itself is unique, with a degree of culture and elegance unusual by southern standards and, in its
sassi
- dwellings dug out of the ravine in tiers - one of the country's oddest urban features. The
sassi
are mainly abandoned now, an eerie troglodyte enclave occupying the lower regions of the city. But until thirty years ago this part of the city was still populated by the poorest of the
materani
.
During the 1950s and 1960s, fifteen thousand people were forcibly removed from the
sassi
and rehoused in modern districts on th...
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