Castel del Monte

Puglia

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May 14th 2008
14 May 2008 We saw some of the smallest and one of the lager buildings in the area as we journeyed through Puglia today. Our first stop was Alberobello which has a collection of about 1500 Trulli, small cylindrical shaped buildings with conical roofs. Originally built in the middle ages of the local rock, limestone, and without mortar so they could easily be pulled down and thereforew not in ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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