The Trulli are typical conical buildings which are part of our Apulian territory.
Its origins are probably very ancient, infact it’s said that they are very similar to the tholos, a dome-shaped structure used during the Bronze Age as funerary constructions, although the oldest trulli that have survived are dating back to the 16th century indeed.
They were built with local limestone without any cement and that make them an extraordinary example of drystone building, recognized as Unesco World Heritage.
The conical roof is set on a round or squared base with a double masonry and it is covered with chiancarelle, thin and long drystone slabs ordered in concentric circles culminating with a decorative pinnacle atop the cone of the trullo.
The trulli were usually used as stable, as storehouses for agricultural tools or rural houses for the farmers, which could be self-sufficient thanks to the vegetable garden and to the rainwater collected into the underground cistern.
Alberobello is the capital of the trulli but they can also be easily seen among the countryside of the Itria Valley and throughout the Murgia dei Trulli.
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