Alberobello – another UNESCO World Heritage Site in Italy

This post is part of a series called Around Italy

Lago di Maggiore, Italy in April 2017
Pistoia – a day trip from Pisa
Lucca – a day trip from Pistoia
Villa di Corliano Relais all’Ussero – San Giuliano Terme
Bari – our gateway to south Italy
Lecce – Florence of the south
Matera – The European Capital of Culture for 2019
Alberobello – another UNESCO World Heritage Site in Italy
Chioggia – off the usual tourist trail
Vicenza – a delightful city with elegant buildings
Bassano del Grappa – what a beautiful place!
Burano – the colours speak for itself
Views of Venice on a water bus to Murano
Picturesque Padova (Padua)
The Divine Dolomites
Bolzano is an all-round beauty
Cagliari – the timeless ancient city
Naples – charismatic, chaotic, charming
Ischia – An Idyllic Island Retreat
Postcard-perfect Procida

Alberobello, Puglia is home to “trulli,” whitewashed stone huts with distinctive conical roofs. Alberobello is a UNESCO World Heritage Site for the trulli but many of them are now gift shops

When my partner and I visited Alberbello in April 2016, it was just as well that we bought the tickets the day before because the FSE (Ferrovie Sud-Est) train to Alberobello departed from a platform at the far end of the central station. The journey took just under 2 hours. It probably took just as long to walk amongst the trulli!

The owner of a shop housed in one of the trulli which sold strange flavour of liqueur very kindly explained to us the structure and history of a trullo and invited us to the back of the building to see the sea of conical roofs!