Restoration work

Conservation and restoration

The architectural restoration project aimed to bring to light a place that today aims to become a privileged destination for new travelers. The conservation and restoration work was conceived with the aim of preserving the existing structure in its entirety. In particular, the recovery of the trulli and the casale, of the ancient ovens for collective use and of dry stone walls, symbols of rural wisdom and guardians of a past to be preserved, lived and handed down. The history of the trulli is a history that begins in the distant fourteenth century but the period of maximum expansion is considered to be 1400. In this historical period these typically domed buildings were thought to be ‘temporary’ houses. In this period, in fact, a new edict imposed very high taxes for each newly built country and then the landowners commissioned farmers to build dry houses, that is, without the use of materials intended to stick together after laying. In that way, if someone had gone to check, they could have brought down the little structure in a small range of time and turned it into a pile of stones. Today the trulli we know are the result of the work of architects and maestri trullari, who have transformed with their restoration works these ancient houses into real homes equipped with every comfort and luxury.