Palazzo Viceconte
75100 Matera, Italy
Palazzo Viceconte is a historical building set in the Matera Sassi UNESCO site area. The Viceconte's rooms feature antique furnishings, free WiFi, digital TV, and air conditioning. Most rooms boast panoramic views, while some overlook the Palazzo's quiet internal 17th-century courtyard. The Palace features beautiful frescoed halls that come with original furniture, and a collection of paintings ranging from the 17th to the 20th century. The Viceconte Palazzo is just around the corner from Matera's Duomo cathedral.
In collaboration with our promotional partner FERULA VIAGGI Italy Slow Tours, the Palazzo Viceconte has a special offer: Book THREE nights at the palazzo and receive the James Bond NO TIME TO DIE TOUR for free!
Ferula Viaggi Italy Slow Tours offers many guided tours around Matera and the south of Italy. They have designed a tour specific to James Bond and No Time to Die, which will bring you to all the filming locations in the city.
The Slow Italy Tours ‘James Bond Tour’ can be found at: https://www.materaturismo.it/en/matera-guided-tours/tour-james-bond-matera/
Palazzo Viceconte is placed at the main meeting place of the Roman era and along the centuries of Byzantine, Lombard, Saracen and Norman denomination until the 2nd half of the 13th century when the Cathedral was built.
The palace was built by the descendants of Nicola Venusio, who arrived in Matera in the 2nd half of the 15th century.
Around that time the construction of the building began. The northwest part of the building was first built. Later, on the opposite side, the private chapel dedicated to the Madonna dei Sette Dolori was built in the mid-17th century.
Immediately afterwards the main façade of the building was completed by incorporating the two previous buildings and extending the building on the east side. The building thus assumed the appearance of a building with an inner courtyard open on the north side. In the mid-eighteenth century the north wing was added so as to join the various parts of the building which was then equipped with a closed internal courtyard. In 1749, the Venusio acquired the fief and the title of baron of Turi from the Moles family which had contracted a strong debt with them. The interest of the family then moved towards Turi, where they will dedicate themselves to the enhancement of the existing building there.
From the 2nd half of the 19th century the palace suffered a slow decline until it was sold by the ancient owners in 1950. In the following decades the deterioration increased and also the building underwent serious tampering and mutilation. After 1994, purchased by the current owners, the Viceconte family, the building was restored and brought back to its original state.
In NO TIME TO DIE, the Palazzo featured in the scene in which 007 tries to reach Madeleine after the attack at the cemetary. He takes Primo's bike and can be seen racing through Matera. When he arrives at the exterior of his hotel, it is the Palazzo Viceconte we see.
