We're Jordan and Emily a couple from Australia who quit our jobs to travel full-time while
on the road we've seen the ancient Imperial City of Hue in Vietnam and even the ancient
Egyptian Pyramids from 2500 BC but today we wind the clock back the furthest we ever have
welcome to one of if not the coolest City we have been to in our 212 days of travel we
are in Matera Italy which is the oldest city in Europe and the third oldest in the entire world
it is incredible we got in last night and the first view we had of the Old Town is this one
apparently there's cave churches that we get to check out, there is man-made underground cisterns
that collect drinking water for hundreds of years that we're going to see and most
importantly James Bond shot some of no time to die here so we're gonna go check out the scene
where they were on the motorbikes jumping crazy jumps in real life we're gonna see it
came across that view last night just on our way to our accommodation
which happens to be in a cave because this city is so old it's been populated
since 7000 BC and they used to dig holes in the caves for people to live in it's mostly
peasant housing they call them sassis and that's where we're staying tonight
our cave Airbnb that we get to stay in while we're in Matera essentially the whole house
has been caved out of the Rock and is pretty typical of the ancient houses of sassi de Matera
there's not that much to show but it is really well done and really unique so
this is the kitchen dining Lounge room area we have a couch a door that connects to the hosts
Studio Gallery area because they're a sculpture artist this is the kitchen it has everything
you would need a little two burner stove really cute antique coffee maker sink fridge over here
is the dining area and then we have basically all of your supplies for the kitchen a kettle
tiny little coffee maker it's pans plates teas all that sort of stuff
through further into the cave is the bedroom and there's all of these cute little hanging things
that I'm pretty sure the host has made that just makes the whole house feel super dreamy
speaking of dreamy I feel like this light is like a cloud I love it
so the host is obviously a sculpture artist so it's decorated with all different mirrors and
sculptures in the bedroom it sort of takes on a nautical theme there's also a little
chest for some storage a place to hang some clothes if you need to a big cozy double bed
I feel like a little kid that has a mobile above their bed with the cloud light and all
of these hanging fish it's really nice but the only other room in the house is the bathroom
not huge but considering we're literally inside a cave right now it's all you would need there's a
sink bidet toilet and a shower with really hot water what more could you ask for maybe a door
because there's not much privacy with a cut so this is a bit more expensive than other places we
typically stay it's about 150 a night but we're in the center of town and we're gonna go explore now
you love this scritches huh
Google Maps is very hard to follow here so we were walking in the wrong direction for
a while but there was no stairs going the right way so this eight minute walk now has taken 20.
everywhere you go every flight of steps you go
up you have a different view of the city because it's kind of in like a
Canyon it's two mountains it's two mountains so either side has got really cool old buildings
so we have only ever been on the other side so now we get to see the other side from this side
it's beautiful it's so pretty it's weird because they're all the same color so it's like very tonal
This might be our new favorite Italian city
I would say so I think this is the favorite place we've been the whole time and like I
know the accommodation is super expensive where we've decided to stay but food and
stuff I would say is cheaper than yeah other places in Italy really not bad let's keep going
we have successfully found our first James Bond location
in the movie he flies up this wall on his motorbike on a ramp that doesn't actually exist
flies over my head lands and rides off to his hotel
this is so cool I don't know if his hotel is real but it should be over this way if it is
taking the movie literally we should be at James Bond's Hotel
we are not movies are fake can you believe they lie to you James Bond isn't a documentary
since the hotel doesn't exist we're gonna go see if we can find the bridge where he
like jumps off grabbed some cable thing and swings around oh maybe coffee as well
just had a quick look back at all the shots that I'm getting at this place and it's not doing it
any justice at all it is such an awesome Unique city one in a million thing I've never seen before
and it doesn't look as good on camera and it probably still looks amazing but it's better in
person this place was abandoned a while ago due to safety concerns for the people living in the caves
and then basically a bunch of people just like nah bugger that let's spend the money and restore
it and now it is a major tourist destination and just getting busier and busier every year
because people are realizing how amazing this is obviously it's a UNESCO world heritage site too
what more do you want James Bond UNESCO World heritage
that's true not that many tourists like there should be it should be
crawling with tourists I guess maybe it's a little bit harder to get to and there's
a lot of places to see in Italy but like this needs to be on the list wow
thank you
it's really hard to navigate in Matera because there's so many windy streets
I've been taking us the wrong way again
we need to go that way but there's a building there
thanks for getting us lost you're welcome it's a pretty good view you can see like all the really
old caves in the walls and I'm pretty sure that's a church that one it's like the old cave Church
the way today is looking you'll have to forgive us for putting in so much b-roll but I just can't
turn the camera off this place is crazy part of me wishes we had two days here because I'm
pretty sure you can walk across to where all the really old cave dwellings are it's like a
massive hike though so we definitely don't have time to do it we saw this church when we're at
the lookout and we decided to try and make it there so we're going through all these little
windy streets but I think we found the sign that will take us all the way to the church
wow this is so cool
this is crazy so cool to be able to see like the old sort of what this whole place would have used
to been and then you can see it slowly change from that into what it is currently so cool
so this is one of the many many Rock churches in Matera it's not open it opens in like 10 minutes
it's like four Euro I think to go inside so I'm not sure if we're gonna do it but
it's literally a cave carved into the Rock and there is so many of those throughout the town
turns out the James Bond Bridge isn't actually in Matera it's in a different
town instead we've come to a cafe got two cappuccinos and three pastries for seven
Euro I feel like that's a really good price for Italy next on the list is some Ancient
Cistern a place where they collect the town's water or something but it's right over there
so this is a man-made structure inside the caves
that naturally now collects all the water that runs off from the mountain
and is used for City drinking water as far as I understand so pretty cool
thank you
the excavation process started in the 16th century
they just kept making it bigger and bigger and it's essentially a bunch of different
caves houses tanneries have all been merged together to create a mega cave
how many liters capacity do you think this system holds 2.4 million double it really 5 million
liters of water Jesus it's depth it's 16 meters at length 50. it's really not much down here
not a very big tour
it seems just a bit on the edge of expensive just like the last two Italian cities we've
been to this is on a hill so we are up and down all day and famished
we have heard about one local traditional pasta that we really want to try just gotta find it
it looks so good this has been such an authentic italian dish of the
basilicata region but you'll have to wait to see more about that in the next video
so lunch was quite expensive in the end so in lieu of a dinner
we've decided to have a picnic with this amazing view of material so now
we have crackers salami ham cheese and I don't know if this is allowed
I've loved Matera and what a way to end it that Sunset was amazing tomorrow we
go to Taranto to try some more food and then our final stop in Italy, Bari