Sign in with FacebookCorso Trieste E Trento 11, Alberobello, 70011, it
A trullo to eat in
Alberobello
The roofs of Alberobello
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hey everyone, im planning to visit alberobello along with martina franca and hopefully le grotte di castellana from brindisi but i dont know how to get there?? any clues? thanx.
Both of these towns are stops on the Ferrovia del Sud Est, the private railway line serving the lesser towns of Puglia. The website is, as you would expect, a bit difficult to navigate.
My experience on this railway is that it's slow and circuitous, with unexplained changes of train, bits of the journey filled in by bus, and a baffling lack of information along the way, but if you don't want to drive it's an entertaining alternative.
see:
http://www.fseonline.it/fse/italiano.htm
You are offered the choice of English and Italian, but on my visit the English wasn't working.
Where does the architecture come from?
A good guess is that the name trullo comes from the Greek tholos, the name for a conical-shaped, domed tomb, such as those earliest ones found at Mycenae, (i.e., Agammemnon's tomb) and in Crete, dating from the early Bronze Age. Similar domed tombs of later eras are to be found all through the Mediterranean world, including Southern Italy.
These houses in Puglia's Alberobello is really unique... esplly when you see them from afar - hundreds of them = cone shaped houses. Some have symbols crafted on the cone roofs - many are souvenier shops, there was a church, another huge church, there are also some twin ones - they called them siamese trullis.
it is trully amazing to see these Trullis - white washed houses which were built some 500-odd years ago. Some stories had it that these easily built and easily dismantled houses were built to evade the heavy taxes imposed by the king. Upon word of the taxman's arrival, these trullis were dismantled and moved out of sight and then rebuilt after they left.
and they even have trulli shaped pasta!!!
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