What is Locorotondo known for?

Whitewashed houses with double-pitch limestone-slab roofs, an architectural type unique to Locorotondo's centro storico. Terrace town at 410 meters looking south over the trulli countryside toward Alberobello, Cisternino and Martina Franca. White DOC wine from Verdeca and Bianco d'Alessano, made still or sparkling, from 1,650 hectares around the town.

Where is Locorotondo?

Locorotondo is a comune in the province of Bari, Apulia region of Italy, about 40 kilometers from Taranto.

Apulia · Bari

Locorotondo

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

40 km / 25 mi

Nearest hub (Taranto)

13,930

Population

Apr–Oct

Best time to visit

Recognised as

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.

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Known for

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.

When to visit

Best months · Apr–Oct

Best
Hot or crowded
Quiet
Mostly closed

April through June and September through October are the best months on the Itria plateau. Mornings are clear, the surrounding vineyards green up, and the wind off the Murge keeps evenings cool even in summer. July and August push past thirty degrees, the centro storico fills with day-trippers from Alberobello, and the narrow streets get crowded between ten and one. The Locorotondo DOC harvest runs through September. November through March is quiet, with shorter trattoria hours and a town that returns to the residents. The white walls in winter light, against a low sun, are the photograph most visitors leave with.