Matera early 1900

The map is owned by the Municipality of Matera and was found at the end of the eighties in the archive of documents of the first Sassi office that it operated after the international competition of 1974-1978. It was not possible to define precisely the year in which it was drafted but, probably, it dates back to an estimated period between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century because there is no trace of some important interventions carried out in the first decade of the twentieth century (e.g. via d’Addozio of 1906). The map brings back to pencil the year 1925 near the “lottisation” of via Gattini, while the large dark dots that can be seen in the Sassi, indicate the location of the public fountains built after Matera was connected to the Apulian aqueduct in 1927. On the map are readable some ancient odonyms in use in that period (via dei Fossi — via Albero dell’Ulivo), and you can see the bridges that overcame the uncovered grabiglioni (the current Via Fiorentini and Bruno Buozzi). For a geographical view please refer to the [map portal](http://wgmatera.paesit.it/layers/sdfsdfsdf:30087) of the Authority