Tuesday, April 3, 2012

La storia dei trulli - Appendice

In the XVIII and XIX centuries the trulli became legalized, and the farmers started using the mortar to build them, and the know-how of building them ‘a secco’ (dry-stone) progressively got lost. A peasant of Alberobello, the capital of Trulliland, told us that the last person who knew how to build a trullo died in 1975, and with him the art of building trulli has been lost forever.

Today, because buying and restoring a trullo has become extremely fashionable, many young architects ventured themselves in trying to understand the secret of the conical roofs.

But the results are not quite the same…

4 comments:

  1. mi viene quasi voglia di provare a costruirne uno: le pietre non mi mancano.

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  2. hai fatto anche il corso di muretti a secco... ma stai attento, basta mettere una pietra fuori posto e crolla tutto...

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