Trulli House – Alborobello, Puglia, Italy
Trulli houses are unique to this area of Italy, they are rather like an igloo with a conical roof and a single windowless room inside with shallow alcoves for bedrooms and storage.
Where they first came from is a matter of some debate. One theory is that since Trulli can be built up and pulled down in a hurry, in past centuries their owners would demolish their own buildings whenever the tax man came to town to assess property duty, and then rebuild them when he had moved on. Interesting but that seems unlikely to me, it seems an awful lot of trouble to go to just to avoid a few pence in tax!
When one house became too small, the owner would just stick up another one next door, and knock the walls through – repeating the process whenever more space was needed.
Have Bag, Will Travel 
Not sure I saw that original post. They look fascinating. Similar size to some of the older houses in our pueblo, before they all got expanded. Same cal finish too. Be all right of you had a handful of them.
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If you could afford a handful then you would be a millionaire!
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No!!!!!!
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It’s a shame. A hundred years ago these were traditional working class homes. I imagine posh people would look down on the folk who lived in them and now they are worth hundreds of thousands as holiday homes.
My advice – buy some back-to-back industrial revolution properties in Bradford or Halifax and see if you can get the same financial result!
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Not aesthetic enough are they? Weavers cottages are much better. They were already going for a nice price when I was in my 20s. Plus, Er weather? 🙂 a croft in the Hebrides wd be more me. More space too.
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These are interesting for the challenge, Andrew. Perfect. 🙂
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