Grasp at the chance and benefit from the discount by booking two guided tours thus making the most of your stay in Matera! In the morning, enjoy the complete walking guided tour of the Sassi, Caveoso and Barisano that starts from Piazzetta Pascoli with the urban/archaeological and anthropological introduction to the history of Matera. Crossing the historic centre called 'Il Piano' you will reach Piazza Vittorio Veneto where the nineteenth-century “Ferdinandea” fountain stands. It was commissioned by the King of the Two Sicilies Ferdinando II, along with the beautiful balcony overlooking the Sasso Barisano area and Civita Hill. The tour continues in the heart of the Sasso Barisano – which used to be the bourgeois neighbourhood of the ancient city – with a visit of a hypogeum, that reveals the underground part of Matera, and a typically furnished 'casa grotta' museum, which is proof of how the poor inhabitants of Matera had lived until the mid-fifties, before 1953 De Gasperi's Restoration act entered in force. Reaching the Sasso Caveoso neighbourhood, dominated by the Monterrone cliff, you are going ti visit a rupestrian church of Madonna dell'Idris, completely carved in the rock, that holds precious iconographic traces of Greek-Italian monasticism that date back to X-XIII century. Going back towards the historical centre, the tour ends with a presentation and tasting of traditional regional products. While, in the afternoon, enjoy the hiking tour to the Regional Park of Rupestrian Churches is situated on the wide highland of Murgia and has been declared Unesco World Heritage Site since 2007. It is a hilly open area, characterized by deep karstic slits called “Ravines”. The spectacular landscape unfolds on the other side of the canyon and allows you to enjoy a magnificent panoramic view of the entire Sassi area. During the historic-naturalistic walk, you will relive the path of human mankind: from the Palaeolithic settlements to the Neolithic villages of “Murgia Timone”, from the sheep farming communities to the greek-byzantine ones, which, in this same highland, built monasteries, lavras, and rock-hewn churches.