Impact-Driven Changemakers. Social innovators and impact-driven entrepreneurs seeking deep local integration and collaborative projects in historic Southern Italian Matera
Social Innovation. Functions as an active incubator and hub for social innovation projects, connecting guests with collaborative community-building initiatives and meaningful social impact work.
Local Integration. Provides deep immersion into local Italian culture through organized lunches with local families, guided nature walks, and authentic neighborhood experiences beyond typical tourist activities.
Sassi Access. Offers unique proximity and insider access to explore Matera's UNESCO World Heritage Sassi cave dwellings and the broader Basilicata region with knowledgeable local guidance.
Creative Design. Features thoughtfully curated interior design with inspiring color schemes and creative renovation details that guests consistently praise for enhancing creativity and well-being.
Casa Netural is a cultural center that engages citizens, digital nomads and innovators from all over the world. Located in a four-storey house of about 220 square metres in a historic district of Matera, it serves as both a coworking and coliving space aimed at fostering new relationships, creating new connections, and developing new skills and visions.
For Casa Netural, coliving is not just sharing a house, but a collaborative way of living and a continuous cultural contamination. The space gathers digital nomads from around the world, remote workers, curious travelers, people looking for change, and local community members seeking new inspiration and friendships.
Residents work side by side in the shared office, enjoy moments of daily life and organize weekly meetings to exchange skills and passions, community lunches and dinners, and walks to dive into nature. Each residency becomes an opportunity to contaminate each other, grow together by sharing stories and visions, practice different languages and explore new cultures.
The golden rules are sharing and collaboration, because together extraordinary results are achieved. Casa Netural maintains an approach where the door is always open, welcoming innovators, creative people, curious travelers or anyone simply looking for a place to feel at home.
Casa Netural launched its first coliving project in 2012 in Matera, creating a space to host people from around the world and generate daily encounters between the local community and social innovators, digital nomads and curious travelers. The founders envisioned a place where ideas could take life, where innovators could find a launching pad for their ideas, and where experimenting and making mistakes would be part of the growth process.
Over the past decade, Casa Netural has evolved into a reference point for culture, innovation and experimentation in the community, hosting countless people from all over the world and building strong relationships through an approach based on collaboration, multidisciplinary openness and innovation.
Casa Netural is situated in a historic working-class neighborhood of Matera, designed by Adriano Olivetti, in the Basilicata region of southern Italy. The area is quiet yet well-served, with supermarkets, bakeries, dairies, butchers, and grocery shops within easy reach. Guests describe it as a calm neighborhood full of bakeries, bars, and everyday services.
The famous Sassi di Matera — the UNESCO World Heritage cave dwellings — are a 15–20 minute walk away. The city itself is one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements on Earth, and its historic center is surrounded by a canyon rich in prehistoric caves, rock churches, and natural landscapes. Matera also serves as a gateway to the wider Basilicata region, Apulia, and Calabria.