EditorialPiero Gilardi’s Vestito-Natura Sassi, (left) and Vestito-Natura Betulle, both from 1967, at the Magazzino Italian Art Center in Philipstown, N.Y., June 28, 2022. (Lila Barth/The New York Times)
EditorialMatera,town of the "Sassi",houses built into the caves of tuff above a ravine.Today,the inhabitants of the sassi have been moved into proper city housing projects and the cave dwellings have become a tourist attraction.