Us at Alberobello in Puglia, Italy
The last 2 days have been spent pottering around some of the local towns of the area. Here we are in Alberobello, the most famous of the trulli towns, where there are literally hundreds of them and the town has UNESCO heritage status. Simply wonderful, nowhere like it in the world. We also went to Locorotondo, a gorgeous hilltop town with lots of baroque influenced architecture. It often feels like we are in Turkey or Greece with the architecture, rather than Italy.
We were meaning to visit Ostuni this morning, but had the first mishap of the trip with a poor carsick S. Would have been a miracle really if we had made it through without any chucking! So it was back home to clean up the car seat and we spent the rest of the day poolside. She’s now sorted touch wood with travel sick bands and homeopathic remedies. Tonight after dinner we went into Cisternino for a gelato, up there with the best so far – fig & panacotta for me, to die for!!
Pretty whitewashed Locorotondo
Locorotondo church
J checking out the remains of the first church on the site at Locorotondo, dating back to 1100. Note Thomas the Tank Engine, circa 2014 AD, also checking out the ruins.
Morning tea at Locorotondo which mainly consisted of nutella flavoured cake!
The church at Alberobello. S is still besotted with them, and I have come clean about what REALLY happened to Jesus, the paintings and statues are so graphic! She is quite obsessed with it all.
Alborobello – some of the roofs had Christian symbols painted onto them
We finally made it to Ostuni!!
Beautiful ceiling of the church at Ostuni
Beautiful Ostuni
More morning tea. Becoming quite a habit…
Our last days in Puglia were spent visiting the seaside towns of Polignano a Mare and Monopoli (yes like the board game). Really cute little towns bordering the Adriatic Sea.
The boys checking out an ape in Polignano a Mare
Polignano a Mare
Amazing octopus salad for lunch
Yum
Rice, potato and seafood is a speciality of the area
The cathedral and quaint streets of Monopoli
The beach at Monopoli
Monopoli
We really loved our time in Puglia, it was very different and a lot more rustic than anywhere we’ve been in Italy before. We didn’t see many other tourists either, people were quite fascinated by us and the ’24 hour plane ride to get there with 2 small kids’ thing – one shopkeeper gave me a series of ‘brava, brava, brava’ when she asked how far it was ha ha.
