How To Stay In A Trullo House In Italy [Top Picks] • Indie Traveller

If you find yourself in southern Italy, you may find yourself compelled to stay at least a night or two in a trullo — a unique and local form of accommodation.

Trulli (the plural of trullo) are limestone dwellings common in the region of Puglia. They have some unique characteristics, leading many of them to ebecome protected under the UNESCO World Heritage program.

What’s a trullo?

Trulli are small pyramidal limestone houses that were built as early as the mid-14th century. When you’re driving around Puglia, you can easily distinguish them by their stone conical roofs or their whitewashed cylindrical walls.

They’re constructed purely in dry stone, without the use of mortar or other connecting material. It’s possible that this was just a convenient building style at the time, but there is another theory as to why so many of these little buildings appeared in southern Italy: Medieval tax evasion.

Some historians believe it was property taxes that originally got people…