Free visit to the town

Visit of the iconic houses inside and coffee break. The trulli are extraordinary examples of dry stone slab construction, a technique dating back to prehistoric times and still used in this region. Although the rural trulli are scattered throughout the Valle d'Itria, the maximum concentration of the best preserved specimens of this architectural form is found in the town of Alberobello, with more than 1500 structures. The trulli are traditional dry stone huts with a roof made up of dry-set slabs. The trulli served as temporary shelters or as permanent homes for small landowners or agricultural workers. The trulli were built in roughly worked limestone, extracted during excavations for the construction of underground cisterns, stones collected in the countryside and from surrounding rocky outcrops. These buildings have the characteristic rectangular structure with a conical roof in set stones.