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The town of Alberobello in Puglia, in the heel of Italy has become quite a popular tourist destination. Everyone suddenly wants to see these cute, cone shaped houses that are so typical to that small area. Trulli are small, conical, single room buildings that were made either as storehouses out in the countryside or as dwellings. In the countryside they appear in small clusters of two or three, whereas in Alberobello there is a whole section of town consisting of trulli. The latter has unfortunately become quite a tourist circus, with hardly a trullo that is not a souvenir shop. Some of them now also serve as guest accommodation.