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| Controsenso Basilicata 15/12/10 |
What a time, not even that far, had declared the shame of a nation, for so much poverty and misery that you reigned, those same places that were a source of moral shock to the public places have become glamorous, trendy, very chic places who "are undergoing a spectacular reinvention." Rock Chic entitled, in June 2006, the famous British newspaper The Guardian in an article on his umpteenth Sassi di Matera. A city hidden in the world that if it were real you would think is described by one of Calvino Invisible Cities. "
Hidden for thousands of years in the region of Basilicata sunburned" Matera suddenly appears in the eyes of astonished journalists Thumb-that following the crumbs left by the film world fascinated "by the spell of the landscape" discover a world "as surreal as it is breathtaking." A landscape continuing the Guardian cha "pilgrimages inspired a whole generation of film directors and movie stars." The ancient cave-dwellings and dilapidated converted into hotels grew HIP, Highly Individual Places, That make travel memorable, not places of residence or simple step but they same destination for the uniqueness of the landscape and the articulation of the structure and capable of making an unforgettable journey. The article quotes the author of your HIP HIP Hotel and Escape, Herbert Ypma, who besides being a famous photographer is also a guru of travel and its contents and directions are followed closely by media and travelers. Herbert Ypma, enthusiast says Matera hotels with "sweeping views of the Sasso Barisano, an experience without equal in the world. This is an incredible mix of narrow streets and staircases, arches, doorways and stone houses that sprout from the soft tufa rock and colonization. At sunset, take a sweet, golden color. Similar articles in foreign newspapers today are increasingly frequent enough to arouse curiosity and interests. This focus is shifting the goal of tourists and investors, mostly Anglo-Saxons, a new destination to Italian and Mediterranean cuisine. Someone coined the term or Lucaniashire Materashire, doing to the most famous Chiantishire area Tuscan retreat or become home of choice for many British people. But here, in Matera and villages that the corolla, the English are not looking for such campaigns and vineyards in Tuscany. At least not primarily. They come to discover and be surprised by a sensory dimension, involving the atmosphere which are the countries, by the habits of the neighborhood, the reappropriation of biological time. And all within walking distance of their home, in the heart of the Western world, "this remote and timeless Italy, currently under regeneration, remains one of the hidden gems in Europe." You feel the presence of a world that has stories to tell, landscapes and places that appear as epiphanies, all over-CHIC. In short, as The Guardian put it: "the new place to be."
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