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Trulli Laundry
by Jennie Breeze
Title
Trulli Laundry
Artist
Jennie Breeze
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Photograph - Img_4098
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A trullo (plural, trulli) is a traditional Apulian dry stone hut with a conical roof. Their style of construction is specific to the Itria Valley, in the Murge area of the Italian region of Apulia. Trulli were generally constructed as temporary field shelters and storehouses or as permanent dwellings by small proprietors or agricultural labourers. In the town of Alberobello, in the province of Bari, whole districts are packed with trulli. The golden age of trulli was the 19th century, especially its final decades marked by the development of wine growing. Depending on the area, the building material used could be either hard limestone or calcareous tufa. In Alberobello atop a trullo's cone there is normally a hand-worked sandstone pinnacle (pinnacolo), that may be one of many designs - disk, ball, cone, bowl, polyhedron, or a combination thereof, and is supposed to be the signature of the stonemason who built the trullo. The symbols, cross, pierced heart, host with rays radiating from it, tree, dove symbolising the Holy Spirit, crescent with a cross, were painted only in the late 20th century and the early 2000s when the roof cones were redone. The style of construction is specific to the Itria Valley, in the Murge area of the Italian region of Apulia. Trulli may be found in and out of Alberobello, and in the areas around Locorotondo, Fasano, Ostuni, Cisternino, Martina Franca and Ceglie Messapica.
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