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Trullidea

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<p>There's no greater concentration of trulli than in the UNESCO-protected town of Alberobello, where whole neighborhoods are made of the structures—and the local entrepreneur behind Trullidea has fixed up dozens of the abandoned ones and rents them to visitors. Cool in the baking summers and with cozy fireplaces for wintertime, a rental trullo lets you live like a local for less than the cost of a tourist-class hotel in town.</p>

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From Travel + Leisure , MAY 2008

The iconic architecture of Apulia—the “heel” of Italy's boot—is the prehistoric trullo, a cylindrical whitewashed house with a cone-shaped roof of stacked gray stones...MORE>>

– Reid Bramblett 13 Affordable Trips to Europe

Last updated May 2008