The town is located in the heart of Valle d’Itria on a relief 410 meters above sea level. Its name comes from the Latin “Locus rotundus”, due to its round old town.

One of the most beautiful villages in Italy, and honoured with the Orange Flag of Touring Club, the Green Flag of Agriculture and the Yellow Flag of Cycling Towns, it is characteristic for its historical town, and its wide countryside, including 150 inhabited contrade (quarters).

The most suggestive view is seen coming from Martina Franca, where it’s possible to admire via Nardelli, known as the seaside – even if you find the valley and not the sea, looking at vineyards, trulli, farmhouses and dry stonewalls, and where you walk close to the typical houses, cummèrse, the Mother Church’s dome and its bell tower.

The old town has two main entrances: Porta Vecchia or Porta Napoli, introducing Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, the living room of the historical town, while on the other side, there is Porta Nuova or Porta Lecce, and the street with the same name leads to the Mother Church of San Giorgio, in the heart of the old town. Important monuments are also the baroque Palazzo Morelli, the Churches of San Nicola, Madonna della Greca, San Rocco, Madonna del Soccorso, Spirito Santo (Holy Spirit) and Madonna della Catena.

From Largo Bellavista, from via Nardelli, and from the Public Garden, the Villa Comunale Garibaldi, you can relax the eyes toward the Valle d’Itria, whose name is due to the cult of the Virgin of Hodegitria, and towards its trulli, dry-stone walls, vineyards, olive groves, and the monumental complex of Sant’Anna di Renna, where an interactive museum takes place.

The stone, the nature, and the landscape give unmissable and breath-taking sceneries. Courts, streets and squares around the old town, for example, Largo Mazzini, local called “Largo della Rotella” and much other. In the countryside, you can visit Trullo di Marziolla, the oldest trullo of Itria Valley, rural churches like the Church in Contrada San Marco and Contrada Trito, the Cyclopath of the Acqueduct with its renovated path crossing our territory, and the Historic Garden of Masseria Ferragnano.

The commercial production is successful and embraces several fields. First of all food and wine, with excellent typical products, that you can taste in the restaurants or farms, such as the white wine, the “gnumerèdde suffuchète” (typical trip), the grilled meat, the triddo (typical homemade pasta). Then handmade production and industry, producing stone, wood, iron, fabric, with prestigious local producers and very laborious and active local workers.

Exclusive attractions for visitors and citizens are also music events, such as Locus Festival, Viva Festival, local band and orchestra, and cultural events about books, reading, and exhibitions immersed among flowered alleys and balconies.