The Cave House is an excellent example to be able to know and understand the history and culture of the peasant population of Matera, old of thousands of years.

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La Casa Grotta del Casalnuovo is composed of 5 rooms excavated on three levels, with attached barn and cellar. The environments are:

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• the court, the original entrance of the house

• the big room, the original core of the house excavated

• the fireplace, the area in which people cooked the food and was also used for sleeping

• the barn, includes 4 positions and relative troughs carved into the rock

• the cellar, the lower area of ​​the house

• the ice house, ice reserves

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Inside you can admire the furniture and original household tools can always be felt until 1958.

 

At the exit of the cave you will find a house stocked book shop and a handicraft shop-laboratory in which visitors can buy ceramic products made entirely by hand.

 

 You can also find refreshment in the adjacent drinking a cup of coffee and use of toilets available to visitors.

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Opening time

from April to October every day from 9.30 am to 19.30 pm.

from November to March every day from 9.30 to 17.30 pm.

 

Full ticket cost € 2.00 - reduced € 1.50

audio guide included in the entrance fee in Italian, French, English, spgnolo, Japanese, Russian, German.