Alternatives to
Alternatives to Alberobello: every small town in Puglia, trulli or not
41 towns · 1 region · the complete list
Monte Sant'Angelo, Apulia
Alberobello has more trulli than anywhere and more visitors than trulli. The same valley has them scattered through the fields around Cisternino and Locorotondo, and the rest of Puglia has white towns on the Murge, cave churches on the Gargano and Salento villages where the piazza is still for the people who live there.
This is every Puglia town in our catalogue under twenty thousand people, 41 of them, with Alberobello removed. Ordered by outside recognition. Ostuni, Polignano and Monopoli are cities by that count and are not here.
Monte Sant'Angelo
Province: Foggia · 843 m
The Gargano peak at 843 meters, the oldest western shrine to an archangel, UNESCO since 2011.
Cisternino
Province: Brindisi · 394 m
An Itria valley borgo on the southern Murgia at 394 meters, whitewashed and looking down over drystone walls and trulli.
Bovino
Province: Foggia · 646 m
A Daunian Mountains hill town at 646 meters above the Cervaro valley, Roman Vibinum, with a Norman-Swabian castle later turned into a Guevara ducal palace.
Locorotondo
Province: Bari · 410 m
The round white town on the Itria valley ridge at 410 meters, with cummerse roofs the rest of Puglia does not have.
Pietramontecorvino
Province: Foggia · 456 m
A village at 456 meters on a tufa spur with a 30-meter Norman-Angevin tower and houses carved into the rock.
Maruggio
Province: Taranto · 35 m
A fortified Borghi più Belli borgo on a low Ionian hill in Taranto province, built around a Knights of Malta commanderie that ran the Order's southern Italian affairs for six centuries.
Specchia
Province: Lecce · 130 m
A medieval Salento borgo on the Serra Magnone at 130 meters, named for the Messapian stone lookouts that once watched the coast.
Otranto
Province: Lecce · 20 m
Italy's easternmost city, eighty kilometers from Albania, with a Norman mosaic floor and the bones of 813 martyrs in the cathedral.
Vico del Gargano
Province: Foggia · 445 m
A Gargano hill town at 445 meters where a Norman castle, a kiss alley, and DOP citrus terraces step down toward the Adriatic.
Biccari
Province: Foggia · 450 m
A Subappennino Dauno borgo at 450 meters under Monte Cornacchia, the highest peak in Puglia at 1,151 meters, with a Byzantine tower at its core.
The rest of the 41
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- 19.Ugento
- 20.Carovigno
- 21.Cassano delle Murge
- 22.Gallipoli
- 23.Isole Tremiti
- 24.Corigliano d'Otranto
- 25.Melendugno
- 26.Rodi Garganico
- 27.Polignano a Mare
- 28.Vernole
- 29.Trinitapoli
- 30.Celle di San Vito
- 31.Faeto
- 32.Giurdignano
- 33.Galatone
- 34.Mattinata
- 35.Nociglia
- 36.Acquaviva delle Fonti
- 37.Casamassima
- 38.Campi Salentina
- 39.Martano
- 40.Giovinazzo
- 41.Castellana Grotte
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