A guided walk through the Sassi is the single most useful booking in Basilicata: the lanes are confusing, and many cave churches and houses open only with a guide or a ticket. Add a sunset walk in the Murgia park if you have a second day.
Hand-picked tours & tickets
Walking tour Matera: Sassi Tour with Cave House and Rupestrian Church
The classic two-hour walk through the Sassi, including a cave house and a rock-cut church. The most reviewed tour in Matera.
Walking tour Sassi di Matera: Walking Tour with Local Guide
A local guide leads you through both Sassi, explaining how people lived in the caves and why the districts were emptied.
Walking tour Matera: Guided City Center Tour with Cave Churches & Houses
A guided route combining the upper town with cave churches and houses. Check the listing for which sites are included.
Hiking From Matera: Murgia Materana Park and Sassi Sunset Tour
A walk through the canyon and cave churches of the Murgia, ending with the view of the Sassi at sunset. Wear good shoes.
Nature & churches From Matera: Murgia Park Rocky Churches Tour
Transfer, guide and church tickets for the rock churches of Murgia Timone, with a stop at the Golgotha site from “The Passion of the Christ”.
Private Matera: Relaxing Sassi Tour by Fiat 600 Convertible
A private ride along the roads around the Sassi in a vintage Fiat, good if you want views without the stairs.
Food Matera Pasta Class: Wine, Lunch & Souvenir in Sassi Oil Mill
Make cavatelli or orecchiette in an old cave oil mill, then eat what you made with wine and dessert.
Day trip From Bari: Alberobello and Matera Day Trip
If you are based in Puglia, a long day combining the trulli of Alberobello with Matera. Staying overnight in Matera is far better.
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Booking notes
- Book ahead from Easter to October and at weekends: small-group tours fill up.
- Shoes: the Sassi are all steps and polished stone; the Murgia is rough ground.
- Church tickets: some rock churches use combined tickets sold on site; ask what your tour includes.
- Heat: in July and August, walk early or at sunset.
