With the longer days and warmer hours, Spring has finally sprung in Matera and the historic southern Italian city is making the most of its role as European Capital of Culture 2019. Two key projects are at the heart of this year's event.

The first, called I-Dea, uses archives and collections from the Basilicata region. Joseph Grima is Matera 2019's Artistic Director. He says I-Dea, more than the city's other projects, unearths the region's anthropological, sociological and human history.