Whether you reach the town by car, bus or by train, Ostuni appears as a white vision in a sea of green olive trees. The historical center of the little town comes up as an island of white houses standing on the hill and enclosed by white walls that embrace and protect them from priers.

The defensive wall
The medieval walls were built between the beginning of 1400 and 1500, in order to protect the town from enemy invasions and, above all, from Saracen pirates who rage ,at that time, against the Mediterranean Sea. In fact, they plundered and destroyed all the little towns along the cost and the country.