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The Gattini Counts' six-century palazzo beside Matera's cathedral — 20 vaulted rooms, a spa cut into ancient cisterns, a wine bar in the tufa cellars and the Sassi below.
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A free spa treatment or room upgrade.
Need To Know
- 20 rooms across deluxe rooms, junior suites and suites; the top suite keeps a private pool on its terrace facing the Murgia Materana Park
- Pets welcome
- Our Favourite Rooms: a vaulted Double Suite for the stonework; the private-pool suite for the canyon view
- Le Bubbole serves Lucanian cooking from breakfast through dinner, with coeliac, vegetarian and vegan options; Duomo Café holds the square
- The spa occupies the palazzo's ancient cisterns; the wine bar sits in the old tufa cellars
- Weddings and private events use the roof garden and the Malvinni-Malvezzi church, once the family's own chapel
- Cooking lessons, Sassi tours and an Ape Calessino city ride arrange at the desk
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The address — beside the 13th-century cathedral at Matera's highest point, with the Sassi falling away below and Duomo Café, the only bar on the square, at the front door.
- The spa in the cisterns — the palazzo's ancient water chambers now hold the treatment rooms, living rock visible, with the old tufa wine cellars poured as the wine bar above.
- The vaulted rooms — local Mazzaro stone shaped into ceilings that echo the cave churches across the canyon, bathtubs like Roman fountains, and one suite with a private pool on its terrace.
- The roof terrace — a private viewing platform over the whole stone city, with a summer terrace facing Piazza San Pietro Caveoso and the Murgia beyond.
- Breakfast the Materan way — the city's famous bread served sweet with honey and savoury with cheeses, before Le Bubbole's Lucanian kitchen takes the evening.
Key Features
Book Your Stay at Palazzo Gattini Luxury Hotel
€234.60 for 1 Night
Location
Address
13 Piazza Duomo, 75100, Matera, Italy
Travel Info
Bari's international airport is about an hour's drive (65 km); Matera Centrale station connects to Bari by local line. Traffic in the historic centre is restricted, so arrange arrival with the hotel — the Sassi themselves are explored on foot.
Nearby Places
Bari International Airport-Karol Wojtyla.
65km
Last Updated: 2026-06-04
Expert Review
Origins
The Gattini family arrived in Matera in the fifteenth century and stayed for six hundred years; the family tree that proves it still hangs inside the palazzo. Their seventeenth-century home took the city's best position — Piazza Duomo, the highest point of the Civita, beside the cathedral and above the two bowls of the Sassi, where people have lived in the carved stone for some nine thousand years. The counts built where Matera's nobility always had: on top of the oldest inhabited landscape in Europe.
The conversion, finished in 2008, was entrusted to Ettore Mocchetti — the architect who long edited Italy's great design magazine — and it shows in the restraint. Local Mazzaro stone was shaped into vaulted ceilings that answer the rupestrian churches across the canyon; a glass lift rises inside the old staircase; bespoke pieces and local artisans' work furnish the twenty rooms. The building's underground gave the hotel its signatures: the ancient cisterns became the spa, living rock on show, and the tufa wine cellars became the wine bar.
The family's traces remain where they matter. Their private chapel, the Malvinni-Malvezzi church, now hosts the hotel's weddings and gatherings; their festive colours echo in the curtains against the pale stone. Matera has spent the last decades being rediscovered — UNESCO in 1993, Capital of Culture in 2019, the cinema borrowing the Sassi for ancient Jerusalem — and the palazzo offers the rarest seat for it: above the stone city, inside a noble house, with six centuries of one family underfoot.
Top Secret
Turn right out of the hotel and within minutes you reach the trail that drops down the canyon, crosses the river and climbs to the rupestrian churches on the far side. If the path is closed, ask at reception — they'll route you to the other rim by car. And book the cistern spa for the late slot: the stone holds the day's quiet.
The Review
A narrow street of bars and gelaterie climbs to Piazza Duomo, where the thirteenth-century cathedral and the palazzo share the city's summit. The square is Matera's great public balcony; the hotel is the private one. Take the roof terrace early and the whole stone city arranges itself below — and in summer the panoramic terrace turns the view toward Piazza San Pietro Caveoso and the Murgia's cave-church cliffs.
Inside, the building works in counterpoint. Mazzaro stone rises into dramatic vaulted ceilings; a glass lift turns inside the wide old staircase; the rooms run spacious and restrained, bespoke furniture against pale walls, the best of them with bathtubs like Roman fountains and one with its own terrace pool. The lower floors belong to the senses: the cistern spa's rock-walled quiet, and a wine bar in the old cellars pouring the south's underrated bottles.
Breakfast happens in a series of intimate stone rooms — Matera's bread with honey one way, cheeses and cured meats the other — and dinner at Le Bubbole is the grander affair, a chandelier washing the stone in warm light, small sculptures in wall niches nodding to the cathedral next door, and a seasonal Lucanian menu that treats the region's larder seriously. Step out afterwards: the Sassi at night, lit like a nativity scene, are the reason Matera converts everyone who climbs to it — and this palazzo owns the top of the climb.
