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Day 33 - Alberobello and the Trulli Houses and Locotrondo

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November 11th 2013
A drizzly morning, a quick breakfast and off to find an early regional treno to Alberobello. We really feel very clever locating these and using the different automatic ticketing machines. The trip of 64 kms took us through a lot of agricultural areas - olives and grapes, vegetables and some citrus. Long before we reached our destination we could see Trulli houses in the fields and many of them st ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more