Welcome to Locorotondo

Where the Murgia slopes down, we find the Valle d’Itria, a buffer of green halfway between the Adriatic and Ionian seas, and on this plain, surrounded by small rises, overlooks Locorotondo. It rises neatly and silently on the top of a hill that encircles the last Murgia foothills of Barese.

Harmoniously rounded as the place name itself suggests, Locorotondo owes its name to the morphology assumed by the first town, which arose around 1000.

The first hovels of a village composed of farmers were built on a well-equipped plateau, leaning against each other, circular in plan, as if to encircle as a crown that land wrested from oak and ash forests to make it arable and fertile.