Day 3: Trulli Day: Ostuni - Locorotondo - Alberbello – Putigano (October 5, 2025) 29 miles (102 miles to date)

We began by walking the walls of Ostuni, then getting an 8 am start to get to Putigano before a forecast rain and high winds. We largely stuck to the more direct car roads with better surfaces and fewer sharp climbs. Rain began about 5 miles outside Putigano, we arrived by noon, damp but not soaked. We managed to find Accogliente Dimora, Via Santo Stefano 44, 70017, in 10 minutes. We are within the walls  where GPS is not terribly precise. 

We rang the bell and were about to text when Giuseppe hailed us from up the passageway. We left our luggage in the lobby, parked our bikes in a nearby building, took luggage up one level to our room, then had lunch in his restaurant. Excellent lunch and our likely dinner spot, as most of the businesses are closed on Sunday. We stopped at a large supermarket in Alberbello with impressive deli and take-away options, but he could not sell hot coffee on Sunday. Interesting blue law.

Ostuni Morning Stroll Photos. All the following photos are of the outside walls and inner passageways.

Note the cloud line                                                                                                         

Dog of the Day. Much harder to capture this trip.

Interesting modification to former defensive walls.

Nice re-purpose.

Levis wash day?

Cars and Medieval Cities are a Challenge. Ostuni

Cat of the Day

I found the trulli structures unique and fascinating, so a series of photos follow. First, some history from the web:

Modern History of the Trulli

The construction of the trulli is a millenary tradition in the Apulian territory but the construction of the trulli is linked to an edict promulgated at the end of the fifteenth century, the "Prammatica de Baronibus".

The edict was issued by the Aragonese rulers to regulate the rights of the barons with respect to the communities and towns scattered in their territories. In 1466, the Aragonese needed to limit baronial power to freely build urban or rural settlements and levy taxes. To stop the equal relationship of the Barons with the representatives of the Aragonese crown, the royal house imposed a tax for each new urban settlement within their kingdom.

The Counts of Conversano, owners of territories in the Itria Valley, required stone houses to circumvent taxes. The landowners circumvented the edict by having the peasants who worked their land build buildings in dry stone without concrete. Such buildings were deemed precarious and exempt from tax. When the Aragonese tax collectors were expected, the barons ordered demolition of the stone structures and then immediate reconstruction after the debt collectors departed

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The best compromise for the re-construction of the Trulli with dry stone walls was to give it a round shape with a false domed roof composed of overlapping stone circles.

Calzone & Octopus Salad. Our lodging in Putigano has an attached restaurant, featuring regional cuisine.   John and I shared. both were served warm. The calzone was a delicious surprise. Rather than a stuffed pizza, it was described as a classic "spousal"onion calzone containing farina, olio, sale, zucccero, wino blanco, cupola, olive, Alice, nova.

Accogliente Dimora

Address: Via Santo Stefano 44, 70017 Putignano, Italy

Our Accogliente Dimora Balcony Window View

Small local Putigano Chapel

Operable spigot beside the water tower.

Arches added to counteract the leaning wall on the right

Dog of the Day

Accogliente Dimora Entrance

In entryway of Accogliente Dimora

My Dinner

John's Dinner. Vegetarian pasta in pesto sauce made with pistachio, white wine, olive oil, & basil.