Trulli restoration in Ostuni and Cisternino

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Trulli Restoration in Ostuni and Cisternino

• Trulli houses are the style of this landscape.
  Its restoration is done by setting aside each
  stone according to its type roof tile, walling
  stone, voussoire, and rubble. Its done by
  tenderly carrying each stone back up to its
  rightful place in the dome. We will be putting
  our hands to the materials of which the last men
  and women who were doing so, where here hundreds
  of years ago, celebrating the construction,
  coming to the conclusions about why these Trulli
  were built, and what sort of persons did this
  work.
• For surviving through more ages of strife than
  many architectural forms of similar vernacular
  the trulli house is incredibly remarkable and so
  also the Trulli restoration in Ostuni and
  Cisternino.
• In 15th Century forested Italy, one can imagine a
  scenario much like the tales of Robin Hood, where
  the evil Tax Man would come riding through the
  lands seeking payment from every dwelling, a
  place where stone grew as fast as the trees.
  Dismantled as word of Tax swept through the hills
  the stone huts that the tribal Italians
  constructed in this region were dry stone houses
  no house, no tax. Would war come to their front
  door? No door. No war.

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• Given the help of his family and neighbors A
  domed house such as the Trulli could have been
  built within a short period for a farmer in the
  15th Century. Clearing out a cistern hole deep in
  the ground would be their start, followed by the
  construction of a barrel vault over it above the
  vault they would build the huts square walls.
• An additional layer of flat stones slightly
  slanted (so as to shed water) to the walls
  exterior above the thick walls they'd construct a
  dome, layered with thick rubble. These simple,
  single-family homes would have alcoves built into
  the thick walls to serve as bedrooms. An observer
  could see these houses forming clusters at first,
  and then growing into small groups and villages.
  You will find the Trulli restoration in Ostuni
  and Cisternino very interesting.

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• As this is one of the driest areas of Italy, the
  heel of the boot the intense heat of the summer
  was not lessened by rain waters. If one wanted
  water, it would have to be collected from the
  limestone below the surface. The cistern hole was
  the only way to guarantee a water supply as
  torrential rains are hard to gather.
  Additionally, the cistern hole offered protection
  from nomadic peoples who wanted for water.
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  esign.it or call us 0039 334 9528623or visit
  http//www.apuliapropertydesign.it, Cisternino,
  Puglia 72014.