Il Museo is located on the upper floor of the ancient Cantina Albea, an interesting example of 20th-century industrial architecture and is an integral part of it, as visitors have the opportunity to appreciate, by comparing the old agricultural tools and the modern technologies of the winery, the evolution that in this last century has marked the growth and improvement of the production of Apulian wines. The Cantina Albea (ancient name of Alberobello) was built in 1905. The structure is entirely made of stone, with tanks intended to contain the wine embedded in the rock, just as the cisterns intended for the water supply of the trulli once were. The particular attention placed in the construction of the winery, which was not to be a simple production structure, but also a beautiful building that would not clash with the surrounding environment, is revealed in the elegant and sober internal architecture, which echoes that of a mosque, with star-shaped vaults that connect at the top to the supporting pillars, made up of overlapping rocky blocks with joints modeled with layers of red earth. The purpose of the Museum is to spread knowledge of wine and all that agricultural world made of passion, an inexhaustible heritage of culture and civilization
Information about the Alberobello Wine Museum
Via Due Macelli, 2
70011 Alberobello (Bari)
080.4323548
albea@albeavini.com
Source: MIBACT
