Alberobello: Holiday home bed & breakfast farm holiday in Alberobello Puglia southern Italy

Alberobello

Alberobello literally means 'beautiful tree' and its characteristic are 'trulli': whitewashed cones made of stones, at the top there is a decoration that has some rebellious or magical meaning. They are visible in almost every wheat field and olive grove but they are at their most picturesque when clustered together in the hundreds, to form a town.
The famous white beehive shaped houses of Puglia have come to symbolise the region.
Their shape is, in part, due to the economic conditions: at the time it was forbidden to build without the permission of the king Ferdinand I of Aragon, he declared that peasants were not allowed to build permanent homes. Since the stones had no cement, in theory they could be taken apart and moved.

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