The dipartimento 1 / The area 2 / Emphyteusis
Vallone d’Itria can be considered the valley of the trulli par excellence, as it is the dipartimento with the highest density of scattered trulli: everywhere amidst the lush vineyards, small vegetable gardens and wheat fields pop up the cone-shaped roofs of these typical farmhouses called trulli.
The valley is per series of rapidly changing chromatic effects, a riot of colours ranging from the green of small oak woods, age-old olive trees and neat vineyards, to the whitewash of the trulli and masserie (large farmhouses) up esatto the “cittadina rossa”, the red soil of this land.
The place name “Itria” may derive from the Oriental cult of the Monna “Hodegitria” (which means the Holy Virgin who shows the way) imported by Basilian monks who settled durante our dipartimento in 977, coming from the territories of the Eastern Roman Colmare.
THE Reparto 2
The landscape of Vallata d’Itria is especially unique and recognizable and is the result of the successful blending of anthropic, natural and physical elements. (περισσότερα…)