beautiful town of ostuni in puglia,italy
uniformly white buildings. Originally the practice of lime-washing the town's served as a means of lightening up the dark, labyrinthine mediaeval streets but in the 17th century it became a matter of life and death and was used to limit the depredations of the plague.
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Location: ostuni,italy
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