The slaughter of the walls meant a general change in the state of the places and a reorganisation of urban areas concerned by the presence of defensive structures. Thus arose on the ancient preexistence numerous buildings adorned with portals rococo and with long theories of loggias that watch the Adriatic Sea. Men were distinguished in the reconstruction work outstanding figures in the panorama of the architects, engineers and craftsmen of Puglia actives in the second 1700s; these men deserve to be mentioned: the engineer Giuseppe Palmieri, the architects Giuseppe and Carlo Fasano, the master builder Giuseppe Norman maldarella trinchera, the engineers Francesco Paolo trinchera and Michele Ciraci. From the end of the 1700s to the present, the efforts made in the perimeter of the historical centre of Ostuni has become less frequent and is therefore still legible face late baroque imprint to the many buildings in the city. of the period Angevin and Aragonese there are testimonies fundamental represented by the towers, from two medieval doors survivors and some walls more ancient. They were filled with walls dating back to the XV century derived for the protection of the walls and their place were had tiny Orti worked until it was done the Viale Oronzo Forty. throughout the area below the ancient walls is of fundamental importance for archaeology, since it still unexplored below the market gardens a necropolis Messapica little note. After the discoveries of tombs containing rich furnishings funerary occurring between the end of the 1700s and the early 19 th century, that have attracted the interest of the great historical German Teodoro Mommsen come in Puglia to visit the sites, a strong impulse to exploration was given by the historian and archaeologist Ludovico Pepe, author of popular works on the ancient Egnatia and Pompei.
