Matera Hypogeum: Explore Ancient Underground City
4.6
85 Ratings
Matera

Embark on a captivating journey through the underground history of Matera’s Sassi City. Explore 1200 m2 of hidden houses, streets, cisterns, and places of worship. Book your Hypogeum Materasum tour now!

Duration: 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Materasum Ipogeo - We offer you an audio-guided tour that will accompany you in the underground environments by telling you a story that starts thousands of years ago and goes up to the present day
What's Included
  • Audio guide included
Additional Information

Explore 1200 m2 of subterranean space and delve 12 meters deep to uncover the historical narrative of the Sassi city and beyond. Travel through time and space on a journey from inception to the present. Experience the allure and mystique as you walk through houses, streets, cisterns, production areas, and worship sites - a city beneath a city, waiting…

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Location
Materasum Ipogeo
Recinto XX Settembre 7
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
4.6
(85 Ratings)
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91hedik
May 9, 2025
Great experience - Very nice... well maintained place... very knowledgeable staff to give information. The top is the video of the explanation in materano! It's beautiful.
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C1888qmclaudef
Apr 16, 2025
Christ really stopped at Eboli... - To visit Matera, it is necessary to immerse yourself in the past. You have to realize in what conditions the inhabitants lived: caves or Ipogeo. Read, by Carlo Levi: "Christ stopped at Eboli..."
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Alextw2663ae
Apr 15, 2025
Interesting and informative; - Comfortable and instructive audio guide; very interesting quick trip to the basement. Really nice staff: a couple of friends joined at the last minute and came to meet us. Glad I went there
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Serena
Feb 22, 2025
Very interesting - Interesting to hear the audio guide that takes you into a world apart, far from the present day. Bring your earphones and mobile phone to download the app. Extremely friendly staff
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T3080ixdavides
Nov 2, 2024
Visit - Congratulations for introducing us to this underground side of Matera. We recommend it to those who want to know the origins of this beautiful and unique city
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987jos_luisv
Oct 30, 2025
To learn firsthand a piece of history of Matera - Unlike other tourist attractions in Matera, this "Hypogeum Matera Sum" is not a very visited place and yet it is worth seeing. As you walk through its narrow passageways and wider rooms, you can learn about the old way of life of its inhabitants. The lighting is poor and you have to be careful when going up and down the steps.
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Lupoerrante
Aug 20, 2025
INTERESTING - Beautiful place perfectly preserved and revalued, open to the public with the purchase of an entrance ticket.
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C4845euvincenzod
Jun 24, 2025
Materasum - My partner and I visited Matera underground with a guide. A really interesting place to discover. We were greeted by Mrs. Antonella, very kind since it took away many curiosities.
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Pallina94
Nov 30, 2024
Cute - Nice hike, very good driving. Exhibitions of collaborating artists not related at all to the place, in my opinion therefore useless, since the guide explains the location and the life that was in it, and not the works of the moment that can only distract.
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X9884wuemmanuell
Oct 28, 2025
Instead, drink a good spritz on the terrace for the same price! - Do not go there. You will be greeted by a girl who will not look at you, who will show you the direction to take and who will blow her eyes up when you come back to tell her that there is no light in the rooms and that the video is not projected. Zero friendliness. Then, for the interest of the place: zero also pointed. An iPhone audio guide with 5 unfortunate explanations and a tour that lasts 20 minutes instead of the promised 1h30. With this money, head out for a spritz on the terrace (and zero pointed also to TripAdvisor/Viator) that didn’t want to hear anything following our complaint about this scam tour.
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