Trullo Sovrano — Attraction in Alberobello

Like getting inside a paint of a kids story. It is a very beautiful and very unique town south of Italy.

Is a traditional Apulian dry stone hut with a conical roof. Their style of construction is specific to the Itria Valley, in the Murge area of the Italian region of Apulia. Trulli were generally constructed as temporary field shelters and storehouses or as permanent dwellings by small proprietors or agricultural labourers. In the town of Alberobello, in the province of Bari, whole districts contain dense concentrations of trulli. The golden age of trulli was the nineteenth century, especially its final decades, which were marked by the development of wine growing.

The Italian term trullo (from the Greek word τρούλος, cupola) refers to a house whose internal space is covered by a dry stone corbelled or keystone vault. Trullo is an Italianized form of the dialectal term, truddu, used in a specific area of the Salentine peninsula (i.e. Lizzaio, Maruggio, and Avetrana, in other words, outside the Murgia dei Trulli proper), where it is the name of the local agricultural dry stone hut. Trullo has replaced the local term casedda (pl. casedde) (Italian casetta, pl. casette), which was used by locals in the Murgia to call this type of house.

A stonemason specializing in the building of trulli is a trullisto or trullaro in Italian. The corresponding dialectal term is caseddaro (caseddari in...

The place is amazing and full of history. From all over the world tourists visit the trullo sovrano because of its greatness, compared to the other ones. In fact it is quite big and inside everything is labled in italian and english so it's also a tourist friendly museum (not that easy to find in the area). If you are going by car there is not so much parking nearby so you might need to walk a bit... and remember parking is not free ! You will find souvenir shops nearby with very kind locals that will help you finding the right gift/memory. I bought some spirit in a trullo bottle and some things to eat but hey, I'm Italian! Maybe you might want to buy durable souvenirs, and they offer those, too. Also, if you happen to be hungry there are lots of nice restaurants that will make you fall in love with the local dishes you can only eat in the area. (Yeah, we always...

The " trullo sovrano " is so called because in Alberobello is the only one with a second floor consisting in one room , it is furnished and for 2 € you can visit it .

In a short some explanation about the " trulli " : originally they were built to house equipment used by farmers and they were scattered in the fields of this area of Apulia. When Albrobello was only a wooded area, a new taxation of the kingdom of Naples was enacted on the houses. To favor the transformation of the wood into an agricultural area, the lord of this fief allowed the peasants to build their house in the shape of a trullo precisely to avoid it, this is the period in which this town developed. Then the law changed and things changed; most of Alberobello trulli have been replaced with common buildings but two districts have survived as they were and are now a...