Alberobello (Alberobello) - a miniature town, already in 1996 taken under the protection of UNESCO, is famous for its snow-white houses trulli. It's hard to believe, but it's for these "estates for the dwarves" that thousands of tourists come here all year round. The trulli zone, located to the west of the city center, includes about 1,500 fairy-tale houses with cone-shaped roofs, many of which date back to the 14th century.
From May to October, Alberobello becomes cramped with guides and tourists with mirrors, capturing all trulli houses, creating queues in trulli-shops and snatching out all the cold beer in trulli bars.
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How to get here
The easiest way to get to Alberobello is by train from Bari (4-5 EUR, departure hourly, on the way 1, 5 hours). Also runs several trains a day from Taranto. Tickets must be pierced before boarding. Arriving at the station, you need to follow directly to Via Mazzini, which then goes to Via Garibaldi and rests on Piazza del Popolo. Help not get lost tablets Zona Monumentale Trulli. On the way no more than 15 minutes.
In addition, the city can be reached by car from Bari airport or Brindisi (about an hour on the road). On the way you can see a lot of pretty towns, for example, the white Locorotondo, Cisternino or Ostuni, the baroque city of the 18th century Martina Franca, the Roman Conversano.
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Shopping and shopping
In the trulli zone, directly in UNESCO protected houses, a lot of souvenir shops are set up, where you can buy local products, such as cheeses, grappa, wine, olive oil, and handmade crafts. For natural products and wines, look for a sign of Enoteca, for example, Tholos Wine Bar (Monte st Michele 20) or L'Anima del Vino (Largo Marttellota 93). In addition, if you hit the city on Thursday, do not miss the vegetable market at Largo Martellotta Square, which is open until around lunchtime.
Kitchen and restaurants
Alberobello sheltered a number of delicious and unusual restaurants, both in the city center and on the outskirts (which are considered less popular with tourists, which is why and more valuable for the inveterate gourmets).
In the center you can look in the restaurant Casa Nova or La Cantina, which is located between the municipality building and the basilica (Vico Lippolis, 9, at the corner of Corso Vittorio Emanuele). In the last only 7 tables, one waiter, amazing cuisine and main dishes for 20 EUR. Local people prefer to go to Gli Ulivi, which is located in the vicinity of Alberobello, near Campo Sportivo (closed on Wednesdays). In Il Trullo Antico (Monte Pasubio 1-3), you can taste pizza and sit in the Gallo d'Estate on the outdoor terrace.
Another "hidden pearl" of the city of the trulli is the restaurant Il Trullo d'Oro (Via Cavallotti 27). You can enjoy wine and enjoy the sunny cuisine of the Apulia region in the trattoria Amatulli (a liter of wine from 4 EUR, dishes from 15 EUR, Via Garibaldi 13). Finally, two more places worthy of lunch: the expensive Il Poeta Contadino with a medieval interior, where you can taste black truffles for 30 EUR (Via Indipendenza 21), and a modern Kave Club in the main square of Piazza del Popolo. They say that the service in the latter is just awful, but the fashion does its dirty business, so in the evenings it can not get through.
Entertainment, excursions and attractions Alberobello
The trulli zone in Alberobello is divided into two parts: the less commercial Rione Aia Piccola (in the sense, there are fewer cafes and shops) with about 400 trulli, and Rione Monti, where there are about 1000 charming lodges. In many of which, by the way, people still live.
It is worth saying a few words about the appearance of these fabulous shelters in the world. The trulli are completely constructed of stone, without the use of any materials for the hitch. The roofs are made in the form of cones (this is what the name of the trulli came from), at the top, like the Christmas trees, are the stars, and the zodiac signs are painted on the roofs themselves. The first trullo was built around the 14th century, and in 1925 a law was issued banning their construction. Although they say that it is possible to buy a trulli house as a dacha to this day.
In the zone of the trulli of Alberobello you can simply hang around, looking at quaint buildings, running into cafes and souvenir shops, or you can look into the so-called local attractions .For example, in Trullo Sovrano .This house is located in the modern part of the city, since it was built in the 18th century .And the label "monument" he got for two floors - this is the only two-story trullo, which was built by a prosperous family of a local priest .Today in Sovrano there is a small museum, the main exposition of which is the Trullo interior itself, which gives an idea of how one can live in the "country of the Lilliputians" Alberobello .Entrance 1, 5 EUR, opening hours: 10-18: 00 .Address: Piazza Sacramento .
The second worthy visit is the Church of St. Anthony (Chiesa Sant'Antonio), which is located where? That's right, in trullo. Located on the top of Rione Monti, this eccentric Trulli church was built on donations from American immigrants. Address: Via Monte San Michele.
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