IMG_1385 - On top of the medieval city wall.
IMG_1388 - Piazza della Libertà. The main plaza of Ostuni, location of the Ostuni town hall, and the Column of Sant' Oronzo.
IMG_1389 - This 14th century Franciscan monastery and church of St Francis d'Assisi now holds the Ostuni town hall.
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IMG_1396 - Narrow stairs and local passageways were usual in hill towns.
IMG_1397 - In the 17th century Ostuni avoided the plagues due to the antibacterial runoff from the limewash on the walls.
IMG_1398 - That helped counter the contamination by chamber pots, dumped, with 3 warning calls, from windows.
IMG_1400 - About that time some town walls were taken down, which also let more breezes blow through the passages.
IMG_1401 - Lime on the walls now mostly helps reflect the hot sun.
IMG_1402 - A brick wall, coated with stucco and many centuries of lime whitewash.
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