Beautiful Bari and Alberobello, Italy
Since I have some time today while we are docked for Rome, I will try and do a couple of posts covering the next two places on the cruise. So watch for another one later in the day.
The day after our restful time in Sibenik, we arrived in Bari, Italy—a port I was really looking forward to. We both felt great so off we went on a shore excursion labeled “Alberobello, the Trulli Village.” Alberobello is about an hour away by motor coach (a fancy term for bus). The ride was a good one and the walk from where the bus parked to where the village started.
A trullo is a traditional Apulian dry stone hut so more than one is trulli. The village of Alberobello is the home of a whole bunch of trullo/trulli and they are very cool. Our day consisted of a bus ride from Bari to Alberobello, a walk tour of Alberobello followed by a visit to a nearby conference-type place where they fed us appetizers and some wine. Kathleen tried the food but I just wasn’t up to it. The food didn’t look that good and there was plenty of good calories to waste my caloric intake with onboard. After about an hour it was back on the ship and on our way home.
Below are the photos I took that day. Hope you like them. Don’t forget, if you click the first shot, you can then scroll through with your arrow keys or by swiping…and PLEASE…don’t look at my photography on a phone. Please…
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- The harbor in Bari
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- And a little more
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- Then off to Alberobello!
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- The village is very white and clean
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- Our tour guide Donatello. He was excellent.
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- The town square
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- Small streets branched off the square
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- And smaller streets branched off of those.
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- The trullo are small homes.
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- The newer ones have brick walls but a roof of stacked rock.
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- Very interesting.
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- They are capped in different ways
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- It seemed like every pinnacle was different.
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- The old trullo were totally…
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- stacked stones.
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- Even a huge church with a stacked stone roof.
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- Street performers were everywhere.
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- Most of the trulli are shops now. Very few are living spaces.
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- Loved this on the outside of one that was a living space.
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- We must have been near an Italian Air Force base as these fighter jets flew over all day.
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- Such a typical Italian Noni.
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- Back in downtown and then off to…
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- Our meeting place that had these almost ready to bloom cactus flowers
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- One, single trullo you could go into.
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- The ceiling from the inside.
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- Cutouts for food prep…
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- Cooking and to let light in.
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- Interesting
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- Other trullo nearby.
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- This is the outside of the trulli we were able to go into.
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- Old walls built around the facility
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- Beautiful grounds.
I hope you enjoyed your photographic journey to Alberobello. Come back later (or watch your inbox) for Crotone, Italy.
You may have the universe if I may have Italy. —Giuseppe Verdi