We're in Norcia this afternoon and it's raining, so I'm catching up on the last few days.
From Locorotondo we had a day's road trip to Alberobello, home of the 'trulli'. These are little dry wall huts with conical roofs. While they dot the whole region, Alberobello has more than 1500 of them clustered together, many in a kind of trullo Disneyland in which the buildings are beautifully preserved but hung all about with souvenir tackiness.
While the area was very pretty, it was impossible to get any sense of the way people used to live. The poster at the bottom of the photos below acknowledges the changes, with an early photo of children playing in the middle and colour shots of today's tourism each side.
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| The trullo Church of St Anthony of Padua |
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Wow, such a pretty little town. I looked it up and apparently the townspeople would dismantle the roof stones to avoid an old Spanish King's tax collectors, going way back!
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