Puglia, the home of the Trullo
A trullo is a traditional apulian dry stone hut with a conical roof. Some trace the origin of trulli back as far as 1500 BC, when the Classical Greek term tholos was the name given to a dome on a tomb known as the Treasury of Atreus. Others, however, trace it back to the Byzantine Greek term torullos , the domed hall in the imperial palace of Constantinople. Finally, there is the Latin ...