trulli 3d model

You’ll need to travel to the heel of the Italian boot to get to see these strange-looking houses. More specifically, the town of Alberobello (a UNESCO World Heritage site) in the region of Puglia is the spot to hit to see a large number of well-preserved trulli, some of them dating back to the 14th century. The inhabitants of this region of Italy used what was available to them at the time to build these unusual homes. According to the UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention, trulli were built out of limestone boulders collected from nearby fields. A trullo is a hut with white-washed limestone walls and a stone roof. The walls are made with limestone boulders stacked without mortar (a prehistoric technique called dry-stone construction) and the roofs are built by overlapping slabs of limestones to create a cone shape (the technique is called corbelling). The roofs of the trulli often have markings in white ash to keep away bad luck.