Matera and Venice, two cities that on the surface couldn't seem more different.

One of stone, the other of water. One southern, the other Adriatic and Byzantine. Yet there are a thousand threads that hold these places together, and MaterVenezia reveals them to us one by one, from beauty to tradition, from the loss of urban spaces to new immigrant communities, passing through falcons, seagulls and whale skeletons. With his syncopated and evocative prose, Andrea Semplici investigates places and people, history and the environment, opening up unexpected scenarios and questioning us about our way of living (or not living) cities, and about the consequences that can already be glimpsed.

The book is accompanied by a series of photographs by the author.