Sunday, January 22, 2006

Best Preserved Ruins - Paestum, then Matera, Italy



Paestum is breathtaking. Being close to the Temples you can easily imagine the lifestyle and costumes of the times. Very inspiring. This city of ruins is 2500 years old. The best preserved, as you can see by this Temple. Walking through every part of this city lets your imagination go along with it. The Museum, completed in 1979, is fascinating and beautifully done.

We took a few days and had a wonderful, awesome experience. The cave houses in Matera in the southern part of the boot of Italy, are a special part of history. People lived in those little caves until 1952 when they were moved into new apartments. Absolutely amazing lifestyle and generations have survived that for 7000 years.

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