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Stemma di Locorotondo

Apulia · Bari

Locorotondo

The round white town on the Itria valley ridge, with cummerse roofs the rest of Puglia does not have.

Known for

  • CUMMERSE

    Whitewashed houses with double-pitch limestone-slab roofs, an architectural type unique to Locorotondo's centro storico.

  • VALLE D'ITRIA BALCONY

    Terrace town at 410 meters looking south over the trulli countryside toward Alberobello, Cisternino and Martina Franca.

  • LOCOROTONDO DOC

    White DOC wine from Verdeca and Bianco d'Alessano, made still or sparkling, from 1,650 hectares around the town.

When to visit

Best · Apr–Oct

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  • Best
  • Hot or crowded
  • Quiet
  • Mostly closed

The festa: San Rocco, 15 August

Why come

Locorotondo sits on a natural terrace, the high edge of the Valle d'Itria looking south over the trulli countryside between Alberobello, Cisternino and Martina Franca. The name means round place: the centro storico is a perfect circle of whitewashed houses, and the architecture is unique to this town. The cummerse are stone houses with steep pitched roofs covered in two thin layers of limestone slabs, a profile that exists nowhere else in Puglia.

The streets between them run in concentric arcs and are narrow enough to lose the sun by mid-afternoon. Both the Borghi più belli d'Italia and the Touring Club's Bandiera Arancione recognize the place. The town also makes a white DOC wine from Verdeca and Bianco d'Alessano grapes, grown on 1,650 hectares of vineyards across the surrounding plateau, plus a Città dell'Olio membership for the oil that comes off the same hills.

The Sunday letter

We haven’t written Locorotondo’s letter yet.

One town every Sunday, with the photo, the food, the festa. Be there when this one comes up. Free, by Peter & Sophia from Pietrasanta.

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Locorotondo — photo 1
Locorotondo — photo 2

What to see

  • Centro storico

    Circular old town of whitewashed cummerse, an architectural type with double-pitch limestone-slab roofs found only here.

  • Villa Garibaldi

    Public garden on the ridge with the widest panoramic view over the Itria valley and its trulli countryside.

  • Chiesa Madre di San Giorgio

    Eighteenth-century parish church on the highest point of the historic center, with a neoclassical façade and a tall central nave.

  • Locorotondo DOC vineyards

    1,650 hectares of Verdeca and Bianco d'Alessano on the plateau around the town, the source of the local white DOC wine.

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Where to eat and stay

Not our picks, but places the guides put their name to — a Michelin star, a Gambero Rosso fork, a Slow Food snail, a Michelin Key for the hotels. Worth a table, a counter, or a night when you pass through.

Living here

  • Population 13,930
  • In-betweeni
  • Pharmacy in town
  • High school within a 30-minute drive
  • Train station in the comune
  • Nearest airport Bari / Brindisi, 1 h 8 min drive
  • Regional capital Bari, 56 min drive
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The numbers

  • Elevation: 410 m
  • Population: 13,930
  • Surface area: 48.19 km²

These figures were compiled from public directories — ISTAT, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata — and from the official listings of the guides named on this page. Town details change; verify with official sources before you travel.

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