Exploring locally

There is quite a bit to see in this area. Trulli towns, Baroque towns and the seaside. Today it was Alberobello, Locorotondo and Savelletri.

But first breakfast at the farmhouse, where virtually everything was from the farm including fresh yoghurt and ricotta, cherries, apricots, cherry pie and eggs. No doubt though they bought the coffee beans for the cappuccinos.

Firstly Alberobello, the “home” of the Trulli. These are the rural houses of Puglia, built to be removable with unmorticed conical dry stone rooves made from overlapping of concentric stone rows. The rooves can be decorated with sacred symbols.

Inside of a typical Trullo house

The concentration on Rione Monte, the Trulli quarter

More street scenes

More scenic views

The Trulli church 

A shop with 9,000 hand made ceramic whistles 

And just in case you haven’t seen enough Trulli houses 

Next Locorotondo, considered 

one of Italy’s most beautiful villages 

The church, the centre of the old town 

Street scenes 

 One of several palazzos 

The view from the park at the edge of the old town 

Finally the beach. We drove down to the coast, bought some beach chairs and drove through the various seaside hamlets. It was quite a shock. Huge packed car park after car park and people jammed together on the sand or spread over the grass at the back of the beach. It was Sunday and extremely hot but we couldn’t do it.

Fortunately we came across Savelletri, a small fishing village with mostly swimming from the rocks but a small almost fully enclosed circular pebble beach. We settled in for pizza and the afternoon.

The harbour

Our uncrowded little bay

Bliss! 

Dinner was just down the road at La Mia Terra restaurant. First course papardeli with porcini mushrooms and gnochetti with speck and cream.

And yes somehow we each had a meat course after this!