Polignano a Mare to Alberobello: From the Sea up into Trulli land

We left the beautiful Adriatic today and climbed up to Alberobello. it was a short day and we stopped  halfway along our route to see the Grotte de Castellana. I do not like small spaces so this type of spelunking was perfect for me because the caves were airy and big. They even had an elevator to take us back up to ground level.

Alberobello is on the unesco list for it’s amazing concentration of Trulli houses. These are dry stone conical houses have been built using the same construction techniques of the prehistoric period. We began to see these dry stone structures a few days ago in the countryside, but here in Alberobello there are well over a thousand of them clustered together in two neighbourhoods. The other thing that is found here in high concentrations is tourists. After a week heading overland with no tourists it is an odd sight.