Ostuni – the White Town – an architectural jewel in Italy

February 9, 2011 by europeexplored No Comments

Ostuni is la Città Bianca — the White City — one of the most spectacular hill towns in southern Italy, a dazzling cascade of whitewashed houses, staircases, and alleyways rising from the olive groves of Puglia’s Valle d’Itria whose uniformly white-painted architecture (originally a medieval sanitary measure using lime wash to disinfect the streets, now […]

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