Photo Details

Nightscape photography with/without filter

Name: Alessia Piscopo

Country of residence: Italy

Country where picture is taken: Italy

Title of the Picture: Matera: a living nativity scene

Camera NIKON D3200

Lens

Filter: None

ISO 800

Aperture 3.61471

Shutter Speed: 3.70044

Comment: Matera is a unique and fascinating town steeped in history. Thought to be one of the world’s oldest towns dating back as far as the Palaeolithic times, Matera is now a popular tourist spot boasting hundreds of ancient caves, rock churches, delicious local cuisine and luxurious boutique hotels.

The most famous part of Matera is the Sassi district, now designated UNESCO World Heritage Site and the 2019 European Capital of Culture . Here you can see hundreds of troglodyte dwellings and churches dug out of the rock. Explore. The cave dwellings were lived in until the 1950’s and are the most extensive example of their kind in the Mediterranean.