The Territory

Locorotondo, village of a harmonious and delicate Italy

The city of the neigh boroods

Along the Murgia of the trulli between the two seas Adriatic and Ionian, in the Valley of Itria, we find an encircled green bearing from various hills: we speak about Locorotondo. A city known for its wines and its historical center to circular form, from which drift its name, that it means “round place”. In fact it is constructed on a circular plant with tightened concentric roads and white row houses who turn around the Church Mother. The beauty of the historical center of Locorotondo is represented by its maze of white alleys, with houses that finish with of the unusual spioventi roofs calls “Cummerse”, atypical characteristic of the historical center of Locorotondo.
The historical center takes part of an exclusive club, “the beautiful villages founded Italy” in 2001, that it reunites the beautiful cities of Italy, and has been awarded, moreover of the OrangeFlag of the Touring Italian Club.

The Patron of the City is Saint Rocco

That is celebrated 16 August, an indeed only event is for the locorotondesi citizens, than for whom they arrive from all Italy. In this period of celebrations a lot fascinating is riccca of history the Diéne, the bands of the country crosses the entire historical center interlacing the local folklore, sounds Mediterranean and singsongs. To the origin the musical reason Diana was used like alarm clock for the soldiers, then this nenia was translate by an anonymous musician of the place with more a slightly supported rhythm. After the Diene the Saint celebrations have the way Rocco, not to lose the famous Festival pyrotechnics, during which the better stokers of the meridione of Italy are defied in order to adjudicate the prize, let alone the uproarious applause of the citizens and the tourists. Not to forget its 146 are counted some very, with the most particular name s like San Marco, Pozzomasiello, Macco Macco, Francischiello, Uacelle, Red Snout and manyother anchor.

Locorotondo the city of white wine “DOC LOCOROTONDO”

The wine to “Locorotondo” is one of the more important produced of the many present wine cellars on the territory and of the province of Bari in the region Apulia. “Locorotondo DOC” is which vinified a white, firm wine with grapes Verdeca, White of Alessano, Fiano. The white wine seems to be the favored local drink also because in zone it reaches qualitative levels of excellence; to such much rewarding purpose it turns out to be the delicious one connubio between the optimal fresh white wine with the local perfumed ones percoche; cleaned and cut to little ones touches hold dipped for some minute in the aforesaid wine therefore both consumed, giving precedence to I yield. It is an optimal one chiudipasto. A decisive importance covers the ingredient prince of dressings: the oilextravergine of olive, between the best ones than Apulia. In the locorotondese kitchen, the oil carries out a role of vital importance; many gravies and the typical salads would not be right to exist without the olive oil.

Alberobello

Was founded between ‘ 400 and ‘ 500 by some peasants mandates on site by Counts of Conversano, then owners of the land. The law in force at that time in the Kingdom of Napoli, in particular the prammatica de Baronibus, subjected each new urban settlement, authorization obtained upon payment of taxes due. To avoid the heavy tax, the counts of Conversano imposed to peasants, sent to colonize what was then an oak wood, to build only precarious constructions, they had the characters of the stability of ordinary dwellings. Hence the trulli, built in dry stone, in order to facilitate the demolition, so that in case of inspection directed you beheld but the traits of an urban settlement, obviously abusive. This story of precariousness has turned gradually into a history of civilization, the civilization of dry stone. In 1797 then, a group of brave Alberobello, tired of the precarious condition, he moved to Taranto to get aid to King Ferdinand IV of Borbone who sent the decree by which this small village became free from any tax demand.