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A Craft Older Than Memory Long before Puglia's trulli became postcards, the hands that built them were already masters of a quieter skill: stacking local limestone, without a drop of mortar, into walls that have held for centuries. This technique — known as muretti a secco, the dry stone wall — is the same one that shaped the trulli themselves, and in 2018 UNESCO recognised it as part of humanity's intangible heritage. It is still practised today, by people who learned it the