Alberobello

Alberobello needs 1 day: touring Rione Monti, the district with over a thousand trulli -conical dry-stone houses built without mortar, historically constructed that way to be quickly dismantled and dodge royal taxes-, in a single day. April-June and September-October bring the mildest weather. It's mid-priced for Puglia. Its trulli, with conical roofs and painted symbols of pagan or religious origin, are a unique building technique in the world that survived precisely because they could be dismantled without a trace, and since 1996 Rione Monti and Aia Piccola have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site.