Additionally, the cone itself may have a symbol painted on it ( as shown in the picture of the trulli in Alberobello.

The urban trulli still extant in Alberobello today date from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

In late twentieth century, the Monti district in Alberobello was largely a derelict area when a local crafstsman, Guido Antionetta, came up with the idea of buying up a few dozen abandoned trulli, installed in them modern kitchenettes, a few pieces of wooden furniture and cast-iron bedframes with a view to renting them out as mini apartments for the night for less than rooms cost at local hotels.

In the Alberobello region, local residents who still live in trulli only do so because they cannot afford to move out or because they provide bed and board for tourists in their trulli ..

In a geographical map drawn by Giovanni Antonio Rizzi Zannoni in 1808, one can see the selva of Alberobello and, in the midst of it, a clearing with a settlement of scattered houses that bears a striking resemblance to the present-day urban pattern.

Alberobello is a small town and comune in the province of Bari, in Puglia, Italy.

The Trulli of Alberobello are part of the UNESCO World Heritage sites list since 1996.

Other tourist areas include Pizzo, Tropea, Palermo, and Alberobello.

Trulli may be found in and out of Alberobello, and in the areas around Locorotondo, Fasano, Ostuni, Cisternino, Martina Franca and Ceglie Messapica.

Model showing the typical construction technique of a trullo of Alberobello.

In Alberobello, the structural walls of a trullo are laid directly on the bedrock, after removal of the topsoil when necessary.

In Alberobello atop a trullo's cone there is normally a hand-worked sandstone pinnacle ( pinnacolo ), that may be one of many designs-disk, ball, cone, bowl, polyhedron, or a combination thereof, and is supposed to be the signature of the stonemason who built the trullo.

The quaint symbols which grace the trullo-like cones of bungalows at the Hotel dei Trulli in Alberobello first appeared in the late 1950s, when the hotel resort was built.

In available historical records from the mid-14th century to the late 16th century, the area of Alberobello is referred to mostly as a selva ( i. e. " forest ") and occasionally as a land from which grazing animals were excluded.

Such groupings on the basis of age, did not constitute a permanent, paid military in the modern Western sense, nevertheless they did provide a stable basis for sustained armed mobilisation, much more so than ad hoc tribal levies or war parties.

Malatesta is difficult to place within the spectrum of the various political camps within anarchism both because his politics changed over time and because he did not identify himself strongly with any of the various groupings.

Quite a significant number of the citizen groupings known collectively as the antifascist ' partisan movement ' that did much to defeat fascist forces during the war, were politically communist-oriented or otherwise radical left in political views, such as left communists and anarchists – continuing to a great extent the political spirit of the failed Republican forces that fought Franco during the Spanish Civil War and the anarchist forces who briefly established a social-anarchist society in Catalonia, among other similar precedents.

Not all of the conspiratorial groupings were ideological in motivation ; many who conspired against Robespierre did so for strong practical and personal reasons, most notably self-preservation.

They did not comprise solid lines, instead they formed groupings of heavily defended areas that were self supporting, with mobile troops based in fortified camps ready to counterattack when necessary.

The same speech however contains remarks, less often quoted, which make it clear that Churchill did not initially see Britain as being part of this United States of Europe: We British have our own Commonwealth of Nations ... And why should there not be a European group which could give a sense of enlarged patriotism and common citizenship to the distracted peoples of this turbulent and mighty continent and why should it not take its rightful place with other great groupings in shaping the destinies of men?

The freedom of movement did not go unnoticed by the critics, as John Corbin of the New York Times remarked: " it renders possible many combinations and groupings, all sorts of telling encounters.

The Communists did, nevertheless, attempt to reach consensus with other groupings on several occasions ( in 1934 – 1943, they established alliances with the Ploughmen's Front, the Hungarian People's Union, and the Socialist Peasants ' Party ), and small Communist groups became active in the leftist sections of mainstream parties.

As a result, only a small fraction of the truly ideological-committed groupings did manage to survive the war to re-emerge in the 1990s as politically active organizations.

Originally, all members of the New Zealand parliament were officially non-partisan, although loose groupings did exist informally ( initially between supporters of central government versus provincial governments, and later between liberals and conservatives ).

It is often believed that this " neutral " role was Mattel's original concept behind Zodac, and the labelling of him as ' Evil ' was done purely to even out the evil figures against the heroic, or that he was classed as an Evil Warrior simply because the ' Heroic ' and ' Evil ' groupings on the boxes did not have a ' Neutral ' category, but Mattel has never confirmed this.

It was observed in the introductory chapter that metropolitan life had split into two trends -- expanding interdependence on an impersonal basis and growing exclusiveness in local communal groupings.

Political theorists have identified two groupings within the Communist Party

It has been noted that party and government positions have been assigned to create a very careful balance between these two groupings.

Within his " one party, two factions " model, Li Chen has noted that one should avoid labelling these two groupings with simplistic ideological labels, and that these two groupings do not act in a zero-sum, winner take all fashion.

Among the mostly small groupings, two main opposition parties emerged:

Usually, the master shot is the first shot checked off during the shooting of a scene — it is the foundation of what is called camera coverage, other shots that reveal different aspects of the action, groupings of two or three of the actors at crucial moments, close-ups of individuals, insert shots of various props, and so on.

Other common groupings in classical music are the woodwind quintet, usually consisting of flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn and the brass quintet, consisting of two trumpets, one french horn, a trombone and a tuba.

On June 16, 2007, the two groupings merged to form a unified new party called The Left ( Die Linke ).

Sometimes two groupings have united to oppose the third.

While it was possibly an overstatement to describe the 1975 position as a choice between evils, neither of the two major political groupings reached the 15 October 1975 crunch position with completely clean hands.

The Pawnee were divided into two large groupings — the Skidi living in the north and the South Bands ( which were further divided into several villages ).

The term generally refers to two groupings of dynasties during that period:

The area between the North Saskatchewan River and Battle River ( the name derives from the war fought between these two tribal groupings ) was the limit of the now warring tribal alliances.

* Macau: Veolia invested in a joint venture with RATP Asia and created Reolian Public Transport Co .. Services began August 1st, 2011 and is operating two of five groupings of routes, also to be the more important arterial routes of the city.

A comprehensive review, including an analysis of the osteological characters, by Schodde and Mason in 1999 illustrated three groupings, classified as subfamilies below: Testing of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA revealed some changes, and proposed sinking of Tregellasia into Eopsaltria as the White-breasted Robin's closest relatives appear to be the two taxa of Tregellasia.

East Asian languages describe two notional groupings of languages in East and Southeast Asia:

The university's curriculum required every student to study two " principal " subjects to honours level, as well as further " subsidiary " subjects, with an additional requirement that students should study at least one subject from each of the subject groupings of Arts, Sciences and Social Sciences.

Ethnologue divides the Kwa languages into two broad geographical groupings: Nyo and Left bank, but this is not a genealogical classification.

As the party leader and lead candidate in London has said, he was " not against workers coming into the country ", unlike other Eurosceptic groupings, but he is against " two workers from different countries competing against each other on different rates of pay " and added that " Our main role will be out there among working people, giving them our support and helping to save their industries from privatisation ".

Yet, unlike other portions of Luzon and the Philippines ' two other island groupings, the Visayas and Mindanao, La Union experiences a rather arid and prolonged dry season with little precipitation to be expected between the months of November and May.