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#Apulia
#Architecture_of_Italy
#Vernacular_architecture
#Stone_houses
#House_types
#Roofing_materials
#Walls
Row of trullo houses in Monte Pertica street in Alberobello, Bari Province A trullo （plural, trulli） is a traditional Apulian dry stone hut with a conical roof.
Their style of construction is specific to the Itria Valley, in the Murge area of the Italian region of Apulia.
Trulli were generally constructed as temporary field shelters and storehouses or as permanent dwellings by small proprietors or agricultural labourers.
In the town of Alberobello, in the province of Bari, whole districts contain dense concentrations of trulli.
The golden age of trulli was the nineteenth century, especially its final decades, which were marked by the development of wine growing.
The Italian term trullo （from the Greek word τρούλος, cupola） refers to a house whose internal space is covered by a dry stone corbelled or keystone vault.
Trullo is an italianized form of the dialectal term, truddu, used in a specific area of the Salentine peninsula （i.e. Lizzaio, Maruggio,
and Avetrana, in other words, outside the Murgia dei Trulli proper）, where it is the name of the local agricultural dry stone hut.
Trullo has replaced the local term casedda （pl. casedde） （Italian casetta, pl. casette）, which was used by locals in the Murgia to call this type of house.
A stonemason specializing in the building of trulli is a trullisto or trullaro in Italian.
The corresponding dialectal term is caseddaro （caseddari in the plural）, i.
e.
builder of casedde.
Other areas of Apulia have dry stone huts that were used as temporary shelters by peasants; the photographs show some examples of these in the National Park of Alta Murgia.
There are many theories behind the origin of the design.
One of the more popular theories is that due to high taxation on property, the people of Apulia built dry stone wall constructions so that ...