The pity is I wasn't old enough to visit Matera when it was really interesting.
David Seymour, Matera.
Indeed; add the gift of invisibility and you'd - we'd all have been laughing!
Until the seventies or so the place was seen as the shame of Italy; did folks have a right to exploit that at that time?
Raises a delicate question, though: where does voyeurism differ from art? Or does it, or does the latter simply excuse the former?
Rob
P.S.
That hotel. For the dates I just typed in, starting today, a week would run me €230 a night.
Not bad for an ex-slum. Maybe something for the old Gorbals to have considered...
:-)
