Christmas is just around the corner: why not celebrate it in a trullo?

Christmas always brings with it a magical atmosphere, made up of intense scents of ginger cookies and lights that light up the ancient center of cities or the darkness of the countryside. A magic that here in Valle d'Itria explodes with all its most rural connotations: the sweets are the traditional ones, which our grandmothers still prepare at home, the white is not that of snow but of the lime of its trulli, the nativity scenes are not simple figurines resting on a shelf, but come to life in caves and small village squares.

And if in summer the Itria Valley is the best time to discover its profound beauty, Christmas is no different. Even better if in a trullo.

Here, time seems to stand still. You can feel it from the first moment you step through the doorway. The trullo, thanks to its ancestral structure, is the perfect place to find yourself, to live quiet days and just be carried away by the enchantment. It is the right place to indulge in the warmth of a fireplace in a living area where everything has been recovered in full respect of tradition. To indulge in a reading at the center of a dome, plastered with an earth as soft as velvet. And to wake up in the morning, to a panorama of cone roofs, to discover the primal purity of nature and what surrounds us, a state that can hardly be found within our frenetic and manipulated daily living.

The trullo becomes the starting point for discovering the rest of this enchanted valley, including small festivals that enliven ancient villages, gourmet restaurants that peacefully coexist with old taverns, ancient churches and cloisters that play with Baroque and Romanesque styles. And then there is the magic of Christmas, with its trees gracing the squares and small markets with handcrafted products filling the ancient alleys, to be discovered with the eyes of a child.

No, it is not a fairy tale. It is living a vacation in a trullo in the Itria Valley.