Ostuni

Ostuni, white as snow, white as the sand of its beaches, is an urban agglomeration in the Province of Brindisi. Made of square whitewashed houses, it resembles a chalk construction silhouetted against the azure sky. Perched on a hill at 299 metres above the level of the sea, it is surrounded by olive groves as old as time.

A citadel whose mantle of whitewash conceals archaic Messapian walls and Aragonese towers, where everything is a muddle of levels, ups and downs, alleyways and staircases, and intricate streets opening into little squares. Don’t miss: the Museum of Pre-classical Civilizations of South Murgia, in the former Monacelle convent, in the heart of Ostuni’s Old Town, which treasures the cast and the reconstruction of the remarkable tomb of Delia, the twenty-year-old that was buried here, clasping her newborn baby to her breast, 25,000 years ago.