Ancestral trekking in the canyon of the Gravina di Matera

CAI path No. 406 is only 1.84 kilometres long, but has a difference in altitude of 130 metres more vertiginous than one might think. Above all, this immersion in the womb hollowed out by the Gravina torrent in Matera, which starts from the steps of Piazza di Porta Pistola and arrives at the Belvedere di Murgia Timone, among ferrous rock cliffs, touching on furnaces, neviere, open quarries, tuffaceous caverns used as animal stables and niches for bee honey, as well as ancient channels for filtering rainwater, constitutes an ancestral descent into an authentic botanical Eden composed of 900 plant species. One must cross a small Tibetan bridge to move to the opposite side of the canyon and thus enjoy a magnificent view of the Sassi.