Matera Città Narrata project: a multimedia and multiplatform guide for mobile systems

The aim of Matera Città Narrata (Matera Tales of a City) project is the creation of a digital platform able to support the public before and during the visit of Matera (South Italy, Basilicata Region, Unesco World Heritage since 1993), through the access to cultural contents both in remote and on mobile devices, on and off line, while attending places, sites, itineraries. Several contents have been developed: 3D reconstructions of the city and of its landscape in eight chronological phases, movies, multimedia, virtual reality environments, audio guides, declined according to different communicative formats implemented for different and multi-platform devices. Matera Città Narrata is not a descriptive traditional guide inspecting monuments and mentioning who made them and when. On the contrary it tells the stories that took place in those ancient sites, real fragments of life, myths, events, characters, memories, times.