Matera (It. Provincia di Matera) is a In Italy, the Province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division of an intermediate level, between municipality (comune) and region (regione). A provincia is composed by many comuni (pl), and usually several province (pl) form a region, (with the exception of the region of Aosta Valley, which has only one... province in the Basilicata is a region in the south of Italy, bordering on Campania to the west, Puglia to the east, Calabria to the south, it has one short coastline on the Tyrrhenian Sea and another of the Gulf of Taranto in the Ionian Sea to the south-east. The region covers... Basilicata region of The Italian Republic or Italy ( Italian: Repubblica Italiana or Italia) is a country in southern Europe. It comprises a boot-shaped peninsula and two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia, and shares its northern alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia. The independent countries of San... Italy. Its capital is the city of A street corner in the ancient Sassi di Matera as it looks today. Matera is a town and a province in the region of Basilicata, sometimes referred to as Lucania, in the south of Italy. Apart from an economy which has traditionally been based on agriculture, in the late 1990s... Matera.

It has an area of 3,446 sq km, and a total population of 204,239 (2001). There are 31 communes in the province (source: Italian institute of statistics (Istat), see this link (http://www.upinet.it/indicatore.asp?id_statistiche=6)).

External link

• Provincia di Matera homepage (in Italian) (http://www.provincia.matera.it)