Defensive refuges, villages carved out of the rock, semi-subterranean cities adapted to extreme climates... From Cappadocia ...

The city in question is Matera, a UNESCO-listed gem carved into the rock of Basilicata in southern Italy. Often referred to as “the second Bethlehem,” it’s thought to date back more than ...

South of Tuscany, around the towns of Sovana, Sorano, and Pitigliano, there is a network of roads or pathways carved into the living rock. It is known that the Etruscans or earlier peoples were their ...