limestone

Trani, between Barletta and Bari, is known as the most beautiful town in this part of Puglia, thanks to the local white limestone marked by a tad of pink.

Over time, these plates form chalk and limestone layers that record Earth’s climate history.

The architect used the land as a resource in multiple ways, Rodamaker tells me, from inspiration to construction, harnessing materials like sand, limestone and oak.

By 2021, as they pushed west, they landed at South Tufa, where tourists congregate to gaze at the limestone columns.

Even today, thousands of its physical records are stored in former limestone mines in Missouri and Pennsylvania.