Its nearly 15,000 residents were moved to more modern accommodation but in the 1980s that a few residents began to move back and renovate the old houses. Although façades and roofs were added, the interiors remained virtually unchanged until, in 1952, unhealthy conditions prompted the Italian government to declare the sassi uninhabitable. What look like normal houses are windowless grottoes with earth floors. Matera is an ancient city of cave-houses (known as sassi) which were dug from the soft volcanic tufa rock. The streets and terraces, where the young Diana runs from her school tutor, more eager to learn combat skills, are the ancient town of Matera, in the remote southern region of Basilicata, down in the ‘heel’ of Italy’s ‘boot’. This seductively beautiful, and man-free island, is made up of several Italian locations, greatly extended with digital landscapes and waterfalls. The narrative immediately flashes back to Diana’s youth among the Amazonian warrior women of ‘Themyscira’. Once Diana is inside the gallery, that pair of Assyrian winged bulls alerts us to the fact that this is not 'Paris' at all but the interior of the British Museum, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1. Wonder Woman film location: the Wayne Enterprises vehicle delivers a briefcase: Louvre, Paris
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