Alberobello - Touristic Guide

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.: ALBEROBELLO
Alberobello  Alberobello it is a commune of 10.930 inhabitants in province of Bari. Famous for the its characteristic residences, called trulli, declared property of the humanity of the Unesco.
 Alberobello represents the heart of the Valley of the Trulli.
 Alberobello is a picturesque agricultural and touristic center format in big part from trulli that confer a considerable architectural interest.
 In the single Alberobello there are about 1.500 trulli of varied type.

 Alberobello, town of the trulli, occupies a rich ground of calcareous rocks stratified, that offer the material of construction that gives back single not only the image of the same Alberobello but all of the territory neighbouring pentameter to Alberobello.
 In these all zones the constructions send again to the typical structure of the trullo and are used to residences, commerce, bar, refreshing.

 Every trullo is formed usual from a vain station to cry quadrant, that communicates for means of arches with the kitchen and other rooms. A lot of the trulli can be visited from the public.
 Different products and the intense activities of the local craftsmanship, goes from the making of the iron to the invoice of baskets in wood of olive; from the making of the stone to the production of the typical new wine. Bulwark handicraft it is maltreated the gastronomic art that sees the production of typical local specialty: the sweets of them, the petiole, the cartel late and the amaretto.

 Fixed proposals, now from decades, turns to the end of not to lose the memory of the traditions populate, are the historical recalling, the living crib.
 The origins of the citizen go back to the second half of the XVI century, when, small stronghold under the dominion of the Aquavit, count of Converse, it began to populate itself of peasants that gave back the fertile forest. The accounts authorized the farmers to build the residences to dry, so as to be able to dilute in direction inspection of case, since the birth of an urban conglomerate demanded the payment of the tax according to the custom says baronial; with the shrewd proposal it is avoided the heavy tax.

 Ran the year 1797 and a group of brave alberobellesi, get tired of the precarious condition, it is brought to Taranto for it ask aid to the king Ferdinando IV of Bourbon that it listened to and promised.
 In may 27 1797 the king sent out a decree with which the small village beacame.