Vieille ville !
Matera, Italie
Matera est une ville italienne d'environ 60 400 habitants, chef-lieu de la province de même nom, située en Basilicate.
Considérée comme l'une des plus vieilles cités habitées au monde, Matera est célèbre pour ses habitats troglodytiques (les Sassi di Matera, littéralement pierres de Matera), classés sur la liste du Patrimoine mondial de l'humanité établie par l'Unesco.
La ville est désignée pour être la capitale européenne de la culture pour l'Italie en 2019.
Matera est l'un des principaux lieux de tournage du film chef-d'œuvre de Pier Paolo Pasolini : « L'Évangile selon saint Matthieu » en 1964. C'est aussi sur ce site que le film de Mel Gibson, « La Passion du Christ » (2004) a été tourné.
(Wikipedia)
As the capital of the province of Matera, its original settlement lies in two canyons carved by the Gravina River. This area, the Sassi di Matera, is a complex of cave dwellings carved into the ancient river canyon. Over the course of its history, Matera has been occupied by Greeks, Romans, Longobards, Byzantines, Saracens, Swabians, Angevins, Aragonese, and Bourbons.
By the late 1800s, Matera's cave dwellings became noted for intractable poverty, poor sanitation, meager working conditions, and rampant disease. Evacuated in 1952, the population was relocated to modern housing, and the Sassi (Italian for "stones") lay abandoned until the 1980s. Renewed vision and investment led to the cave dwellings becoming a noted historic tourism destination, with hotels, small museums and restaurants – and a vibrant arts community.
Because of the ancient primeval-looking scenery in and around the Sassi, it has been used by filmmakers as the setting for ancient Jerusalem. The following famous biblical period motion pictures were filmed in Matera:
Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
Bruce Beresford's King David (1985)
Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ (2004)
Abel Ferrara's Mary (2005)
Catherine Hardwicke's The Nativity Story (2006)
Cyrus Nowrasteh's The Young Messiah (2016)
Timur Bekmambetov's Ben-Hur (2016)
Garth Davis's Mary Magdalene (2018)
(from Wikipedia)
Vieille ville !
Matera, Italie
Matera est une ville italienne d'environ 60 400 habitants, chef-lieu de la province de même nom, située en Basilicate.
Considérée comme l'une des plus vieilles cités habitées au monde, Matera est célèbre pour ses habitats troglodytiques (les Sassi di Matera, littéralement pierres de Matera), classés sur la liste du Patrimoine mondial de l'humanité établie par l'Unesco.
La ville est désignée pour être la capitale européenne de la culture pour l'Italie en 2019.
Matera est l'un des principaux lieux de tournage du film chef-d'œuvre de Pier Paolo Pasolini : « L'Évangile selon saint Matthieu » en 1964. C'est aussi sur ce site que le film de Mel Gibson, « La Passion du Christ » (2004) a été tourné.
(Wikipedia)
As the capital of the province of Matera, its original settlement lies in two canyons carved by the Gravina River. This area, the Sassi di Matera, is a complex of cave dwellings carved into the ancient river canyon. Over the course of its history, Matera has been occupied by Greeks, Romans, Longobards, Byzantines, Saracens, Swabians, Angevins, Aragonese, and Bourbons.
By the late 1800s, Matera's cave dwellings became noted for intractable poverty, poor sanitation, meager working conditions, and rampant disease. Evacuated in 1952, the population was relocated to modern housing, and the Sassi (Italian for "stones") lay abandoned until the 1980s. Renewed vision and investment led to the cave dwellings becoming a noted historic tourism destination, with hotels, small museums and restaurants – and a vibrant arts community.
Because of the ancient primeval-looking scenery in and around the Sassi, it has been used by filmmakers as the setting for ancient Jerusalem. The following famous biblical period motion pictures were filmed in Matera:
Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
Bruce Beresford's King David (1985)
Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ (2004)
Abel Ferrara's Mary (2005)
Catherine Hardwicke's The Nativity Story (2006)
Cyrus Nowrasteh's The Young Messiah (2016)
Timur Bekmambetov's Ben-Hur (2016)
Garth Davis's Mary Magdalene (2018)
(from Wikipedia)