The funny trullo architecture is the first thing, visitors mention when you ask them about Apulia.
Trulli were first built on agricultural land as simple temporary field shelters or storage houses made from the stones collected from the fields. They were set up with dry walls without mortar or cement.
Theory goes that people started building their permanent houses in trulli architecture when an estate taxation was introduced based on cement and mortar buildings. If tax inspectors were in the area, these buildings could quickly be dismantled: look, what a poor person I am, not even a house to live in! It seems the most likely - still, many people become very inventive, when they try to avoid paying taxes.
Trulli are abundant in the Itria-Valley around the pretty white towns of Alberobello, Ostuni, Martina Franca and Locorotondo.
Alberobello:
A Trullo Church in Alberobello:
Locorotondo, another of the "white" Apulian cities.
Ostuni
Martina Franca:
Trulli were first built on agricultural land as simple temporary field shelters or storage houses made from the stones collected from the fields. They were set up with dry walls without mortar or cement.
Theory goes that people started building their permanent houses in trulli architecture when an estate taxation was introduced based on cement and mortar buildings. If tax inspectors were in the area, these buildings could quickly be dismantled: look, what a poor person I am, not even a house to live in! It seems the most likely - still, many people become very inventive, when they try to avoid paying taxes.
Trulli are abundant in the Itria-Valley around the pretty white towns of Alberobello, Ostuni, Martina Franca and Locorotondo.
Alberobello:
A Trullo Church in Alberobello:
overgrown with Passiflora caerulea
Locorotondo, another of the "white" Apulian cities.
inside the baroque Chiesa madre di San Giorgio
Ostuni
view to the mediterranean sea
upstairs downstairs
where there's a will, there is a way.
Ostuni Cathedral
Martina Franca:
Dolce Vintage
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