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Finding Your Hotel Isn't The Only Killer Thing In Matera

Where: Via San Giovanni Vecchio 22, Matera, Basilicata, Italy, 75100

We are suckers for a room with a killer view.  We find that we are even more likely to forgive some minor hotel inconveniences if we can stare out the window at something pretty--yeah we are that shallow. Let's help out our fellow hotel mavens by uploading rooms with killer views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. We will feature our favorites in this space from time to time. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number of the hot view.

You know when you get lost finding a hotel and you drag your suitcase along pedestrianized streets and up and down copious steps as nobody around you has any idea of where you’re going, and you spend 35 minutes wandering aimlessly until finally you find someone who happened to pass your hotel earlier on their trail?

No? Then you clearly haven’t been to Matera, in Southern Italy. AKA Jordan, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and countless other Biblical destinations (as per the films which have been shot there).

See, Matera is famous for its sassi houses carved out of the rock. The sassi are a) on a steep hillside and b) for the very most part pedestrianised, which makes it a perfect film set for, say, The Passion of the Christ but a bit of a nightmare when it comes to locating your hotel. Particularly when it’s siesta time and the only people on the streets are tourists and you're lugging a case stuffed with the finest of southern Italy's olive oils. Ahem.

Anyway, all the stress fell away when we reached our room at L’Hotel in Pietra, climbed upstairs to our balcony, and were confronted by this killer view.

We’ll bring you a review soon, but for now, enjoy the silence of the sassi.