HEAVEN ON EARTH: THE CULT OF ISIS

Matera, the city of the Sassi, is the sacred city of the Mother Goddess, who was called Isis by the Egyptians, Mater by the Romans. Today we call her Madonna della Bruna, whose triumphal chariot parades in the famous strazzo through the streets of the city in celebration. It is in the silence of the night that Matera unveils itself in its luminous guise as a starry sky turned upside down on Earth, there in the sea of stars where the goddess Isis goes in search of her lost husband Osiris on her moon boat.

Discover the hidden liquid essence pulsing beneath the “stones”

The experience, to be enjoyed at sunset, allows you to literally enter the belly of the city. Privately, you will be able to visit the extraordinary Palombaro Lungo, an underground cistern dating back to 1870, used to collect rain and spring water, entirely excavated by hand. The tour, accompanied by one of Europe’s most recognized experts on art and symbolism, continues with a novel reading full of symbolic references among the stones and some of the city’s places of worship, and then ends with a starred dinner.