I’ve been seeing photos on Instagram about a village in Puglia with stone capped buildings called Alberobello for a long time which put me on the road to see it. It’s a fantastic place and is usually packed with tourists in the summer but as this was March it was pleasantly just right with mostly Italians from what I could hear. The buildings called truili, and there are over 3,000 of them, were used to store corn. They were built of the abundant stone in the area without mortar. When people started living in them they continued using them the same way as the king would send his tax people to collect money for each building but because there was no cement, the inhabitants simply took them apart and made a pile of stones until the tax people left. Now they are all cemented together and look fabulous. I stayed in one for the night and it was great.
