Gallery

A limestone palazzo facade on a cobbled lane in Matera, with a tall arched wooden door at the corner

Via Ridola, the street door

The vaulted entrance hall of the palazzo, with a stone stair, an iron balustrade and a worn wooden bench

The entrance hall and the stair to the first floor

A pale vaulted bedroom with a wooden bed, a rush-seated chair and a dark chest beside a tall shuttered window

Il Chiostro, first floor

Il Frantoio: a rock-cut room with a soot-blackened vault, a linen-dressed bed and a deep stone window

Il Frantoio, cut into the tufa at ground level

Looking down from a first-floor window onto the arcaded cloister, its stone basin and a single potted olive

The cloister, seen from the floor above

An iron oil lamp and a glass carafe of oil on a rough wooden stool, below tufa still blackened with soot above the arch

Soot above the arch, left where it was

Glazed double doors open from a columned stone loggia into a bedroom with a linen bed and a deep wall niche

La Loggia, doors onto the balcony

The dining room under the groin vaults of the old frantoio, an original millstone against the wall and one long table laid for dinner

The dining room, under the press vaults

A wrought-iron balcony rail above a cobbled lane, with tiled rooftops and the ravine beyond in hazy light

The loggia rail, above Via Ridola

Wine bottles, glasses, bread and cheese on a rough trestle table in a tufa cellar, with barrels behind

The cellar off the press room

A corner bedroom under an open timber roof, with three shuttered windows onto small iron balconies

La Torre, under the open roof

A clay oil lamp and a folded linen cloth on a deep stone window ledge, its weathered wooden shutter propped open

The window ledge in Il Frantoio

A bedroom with doors open onto the walled olive court, its olive tree, stone basin and terracotta jars

La Corte, at garden level

A weathered timber beam and its iron bracket meeting smooth pale plaster in the corner of a room

A beam in La Torre, meeting new plaster

Two wooden chairs and a small table in the walled olive court, olive shadows across the sunlit stone

The walled olive court

A wooden chair and a folded blanket at the parapet of a roof terrace above the Sassi and the ravine

The roof terrace at Il Belvedere

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