A few kilometers from Matera, along the Via Appia Antica, in one of the ravines that cross the plateau of the Murgia, is one of the most beautiful places in the south of Italy: the Crypt of Original Sin.

In a hollow rock overlooking the limestone cliff , the skilful hand of  » Flower Painter of Matera « , scenes from the Old and New Testament narrated in a cycle of frescoes dating from the ninth century.