Long Travel - Holidays in Southern Italy, Sicily and Sardinia

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Trulli Houses and Trulli Hotels

Trulli houses are unique - they can only be found in one small area of Southern Italy - the Itria Valley in Puglia, which has now been designated a World Heritage Site.

A holiday in a trullo is an opportunity to really immerse yourself in the Italian culture and adopt a slow pace of life for a couple of weeks. Alfresco lunches washed down with a glass of local wine, afternoons on the beach and evenings sitting on your terrace, surrounded by olive groves – life doesn't get much better than this.

In the heart of Puglia, the Itria Valley is a rolling plateau, 400m above sea level, surrounded by lush countryside, with an abundance of olive, cherry, almond, pomegranate and a whole range of other fruit trees and also countless small vineyards - all splattered with groups of white washed, conical roofed trulli – an idyllic setting for a holiday. The countryside is punctuated with pretty mediaeval towns; Cisternino, Ostuni, Fasano and Monopoli to name just a few, all with characterful historic centres full of interesting architecture, shops, bars and family-run trattoria. Alberobello, the trulli town, is in the heart of the Itria Valley with a centro storico made up entirely of trulli. They even have a trullo church! Unusually, some small groups of trulli in Puglia have been turned into small boutique hotels, perfect if you want to mix the experience of staying in a trullo with the facilities and services that only a hotel can offer.

Whether you want a base from which to explore, you are interested in the architecture of the trulli, you just love the countryside or perhaps you want to spend your days on the beach and evenings eating at wonderful restaurants or barbecuing on your terrace, trulli are the perfect place to stay - they really do have something for everyone.

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