Alberobello has the distinction of having the trulli, that is to say houses

• made of dry stone (no mortar)
• the cone-shaped roof covered with limestone plates lauses gathered in nearby fields or extracted during the digging of tanks attached to each new trullo.

They are called trulli (singular Trullo) in Italian but casedde (singular casedde) in local dialect.

There are about 1500 in neighborhoods Monti and Aia Piccola, both listed as World Heritage by UNESCO. They are the hallmark of this urban center in the world.

History

The history of Alberobello since the second half of the ^sixteenth century. This small fee then under the control of the family Acquaviva , Count of Conversano , saw the arrival of the peasants who cultivated the land.

According to legend, the counts allowed the settlers to build houses in dry stone (no mortar) in order to remove easily in case of royal inspection. Indeed, the first Ferdinand of Aragon, in her Prammatica of Baronibus, demanded payment of a fee in case of building houses fixed.

In 1797, a group of courageous men of Alberobello, tired of this precarious situation, went to Taranto to ask the help of King Ferdinand IV of Bourbon, who received them and made them a promise. On 27 May 1797, the king sent a decree freeing the village.

These explanations, however, face a statement. Luigi Mongiello, professor of architecture at the Engineering Faculty of Bari, said that the trulli built in the early twentieth century, so long after the Edict of Gian Girolamo Acquaviva and the decree of Ferdinand IV of Bourbon are constructed by superposition of layers of stones and lauses no trace of mortar (so that the cuffs are perfect internal coatings). This implies that the lack of mortar in the trulli structures is a dogma inherent in the secular tradition of local craftsmen and builders, therefore, that the explanation of "the instant demolition for inspection" does not .

The Basilica of Saints Cosmas and Damian, built in 1882 by architect Antonio Curri on the basis of the chapel of the twelfth ^century

At the top of the Monti district, the church of San Antonio with roof-shaped trulli

Administration

Hamlets

Coreggia

Common Boundary

Castellana Grotte , Fasano , Locorotondo , Martina Franca , Monopoli , Mottola , Noci

Demographics

Residents identified

Notes

References

External Links

• (En) "Alberobello, city of the trulli on trulliland.it
• (En) "Alberobello, the land of the trulli by Delphine Buratto, RADICI No. 33
• (En) "Alberobello - study trip in Puglia (southern Italy), March 2004
• (It) Official site of the town of Alberobello (including the plan to construct a trullo and explaining its various spaces)