Stone
Ancient stone is the protagonist of the restoration: from the footpaths to the low walls, the floors and the cones.
Experience the authenticity of the borgo
Apulia, as it once was.
There are places that resonate with the soul. Among the Mediterranean maquis and century-old olives stand 42 charming trullo cones — witnesses of an ancient farming hamlet that in the mid-1800s may have sheltered Basilian monks and later farming families.
A majestic restoration
New life for the borgo.
Borgo Canonica is the result of renovating and recovering a nineteenth-century farming hamlet, made almost entirely of trulli, over an area of 6 hectares.
Giving the borgo new life while keeping the place’s original integrity and beauty was the aim of everyone involved. The careful recovery of ancient ovens, historic cisterns, chiancarelle and dry-stone walls keeps tangible traces of those people “able to believe in dragons and wizards, yet deeply rational”.
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Stone and lime
The materials.
Simple choices echo the history that shaped the Itria Valley and made it unique: stone, lime and iron, in the Apulian architectural tradition.
Lime
The bright white of the trulli, treated according to the borgo’s historic identity and Apulian architectural tradition.
Iron
With its hardness and essential lines it contrasts with the white of the trulli and gives the borgo its atmosphere.
How it’s built
Inside a trullo.
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The pinnacle
A small sculpture of stone and lime crowns the cone. It is the trullo’s most recognisable sign — you see it rising above the olives before you see the house.
Masters of stone
The authors.
The restoration was made possible by the joint work of Valcanonica S.r.l., owner of the borgo, architects Aldo Flore and Rosanna Venezia, and the Puglia Region, which funded the rebuilding project.
Precious testimonies
Stories of the borgo.
“This is one of those commissions that make our job the most beautiful in the world, wrapped every day in the light of the Apulian sky, its inebriating scents and colours.”
Architects Aldo Flore and Rosanna Venezia
“Everything here was covered in green, ivy had climbed all over the trulli, they were completely covered… Now we are bringing them back to life.”
The trullari, master stone-builders
“If anyone had asked me to buy those trulli I wouldn’t have wanted them even as a gift. And yet I marvel at what they managed to do. Look at what Canonica has become!”
Nicola, the borgo’s last tenant