up to $250

Teatro Guerrieri Society

The recently renovated Teatro Comunale “G. Guerrieri” is named after the renowned director who was awarded the 1949 Nastro d’Argento for the iconic neorealism manifesto movie Ladri di Biciclette.

$500 – $999

Auditorium R. Gervasio Society

Located in Matera’s Conservatorio “E. R. Duni”. The main entrance is from via del Corso, below piazza San Francesco.

Carved in the rock beneath Conservatorio “E. R. Duni”, the newly-restored 400 seat concert hall is the epicenter of Matera’s musical tradition.

$1,000 – $1,999

Casa Cava Society

Casa Cava is a cultural center completely carved into the rock and positioned within the Sassi, just opposite the breathtaking Chiesa Rupestre di San Pietro Barisano. Originally used as a quarry, it is now a concert hall, theater, exhibition and congress hall where beauty and functionality meet.

$2,000 – $4,999

Museo Lanfranchi Society

The Medieval and Modern Art National Museum of Basilicata is housed in Palazzo Lanfranchi, a prestigious building built immediately behind the Sasso Caveoso, between 1668 and 1672 as a seminary. The museum exhibition path, on the first floor, is divided into three sections: Sacred Art, Collectibles and Contemporary Art.

Sala Levi, located in Palazzo Lanfranchi, it is framed by the astonishing 18-meter narrative painting by Carlo Levi, Lucania ’61 which focuses on space, vision and perspective of Matera through anthropology and heritage, cave architecture and social history.

$5,000 – $9,999

E. R. Duni Conservatory Society

Matera’s Conservatory of Music is partially housed in the stunningly beautiful Palazzo del Sedile, built in 1759. All three conservatory buildings are located within Piazza del Sedile.

Named after Egidio Duni, a composer of Italian and French operas, the conservatory has an enrollment of more than 900 students and is directed by Saverio Vizziello. The E.R. Duni Conservatory is a major partner of Vivace Matera.

$10,000 – $14,999

Palazzo Viceconte Society

$15,000 – $19,999

Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista Society

The original structure dates back to years immediately prior to the thirteenth century and was completed in 1233, in this period the church was known as Santa Maria la Nova and was a place of welcome for the Augustinian penitents of Accon.

When the nuns moved, around the end of the fifteenth century, the church was abandoned and remained unused until 1695 when Monsignor del Ryos sanctioned the reopening of the cult, giving it the name with which we know it today.

$20,000 – $24,999

La Cattedrale di Matera Society

Matera Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Matera, Basilicata, Italy. It is dedicated to the Virgin Mary under the designation of the Madonna della Bruna and to Saint Eustace. Formerly the seat of the Bishops, later Archbishops, of Matera, it is now the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Matera-Irsina.

The cathedral was built in Apulian Romanesque style in the 13th century on the ridge that forms the highest point of the city of Matera and divides the two Sassi, on the site of the ancient Church of Saint Eustace, protector of the city.

$25,000 +

Santa Maria De Idris Society

The Church of Santa Maria De Idris is located in the upper part of the rocky spur of Montirone (or Monterrone), near San Pietro Caveoso. The location is beautiful and offers a unique view of the city and the Gravina.

The church of Santa Maria de Idris dates back to the fifteenth and fifteenth century and is part of a rock complex that also includes the oldest crypt, dedicated to San Giovanni in Monterrone. This crypt is important for the frescoes it preserves, ranging from the 12th to the 17th centuries. The two churches are communicating.

The name of the temple – Idris – almost certainly derives from the Greek Odigitria (guide of the street, or of the water). In Constantinople the Virgin Mary was so called and venerated, whose cult was introduced in southern Italy by the Byzantine monks. The church has an irregular plan and is characterized by two distinct parts: one built and one excavated. The façade, modest and made of tuff, was rebuilt in the fifteenth century, following a collapse.