Matera returns to normal after flooding. MiBACT checks damage to hypogea

Matera is back to normal after flooding hit the city the day before yesterday. The weather alert has returned to the city area, and schools have already reopened regularly since yesterday. The municipality reports damage only to the central Via Bruno Buozzi: the paving stones were torn up by the fury of the water in some places, but city technicians are already working to restore them (the road will remain closed until midnight today). Then there was flooding in the famous sassi, in particular water entered the hypogeal premises in the Sasso Caveoso, in the area of Piazza Vittorio Veneto: damaged some arts and crafts stores and the public toilets in Piazza Vittorio Veneto. In addition, inconvenience was caused by falling trees in several areas of the city. Teams of workers are still working to remove trunks and debris from the historic center and new areas, while also securing areas threatened by unsafe branches.

The Ministry of Cultural Heritage has activated a crisis unit to check for damage to the ancient hypogea, the underground rooms of the Sassi of Matera. Technicians and inspectors are still working to count the damage, but as far as the artistic heritage is concerned, no particular critical issues have been reported.

Matera returns to normal after flooding. MiBACT checks damage to hypogea

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