S13 Ep46: Stage 5 | Ceglie Messapica – Matera | Giro d’Italia 2025

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🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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0:00.0	You're listening to Girovagando, the cycling podcast at the 2025 Girod Italia,
0:09.2	celebrating 10 years of the cycling podcast on the ground every day at the Girod Italia.
0:15.1	Today we are in Matera.
0:17.4	Cozze chite and cozze, cozze bichine.
0:38.3	Good evening, Daniel. We're in Materaa and it's not often that I'm sort of lost for words regarding our surroundings, but this is something else.
0:45.3	I would say to any listener.
0:47.3	It's a cocktail bar?
0:48.3	No, not the cocktail bar.
0:49.3	The mannequin over there wearing a lot of necklaces.
0:53.3	Some kind of tutu by the looks of it. No, I'm referring to the town. over there wearing a lot of necklaces.
0:56.2	And some kind of tutu by the looks of it.
0:58.5	No, I'm referring to the town, Matara.
0:59.4	I knew it was special.
1:00.2	I'd heard a lot about it.
1:01.5	I'd seen photos on the internet,
1:03.9	but seeing it with my own eyes,
1:05.4	as we came around the corner there,
1:08.0	my first impression was, wow, it looks like Jerusalem. And then you said it was used as a set for Jerusalem in a Mel Gibson film.
1:14.3	What was it called? The Redemption of Christ, the birth of Christ.
1:16.6	The film in the 90s, at which time, Lionel, apparently there was not a single hotel in the sassy of Matera.
1:23.8	I just tried to do a search to find out how many there are now.
1:26.1	I would guess, I wasn't able to find out how many, but I would guess there might be over 100.
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