Salento has a thousand-year history. Sculpted into the white Lecce stone in the 11th century, an exquisite testimony of Apulian Romanesque architecture, and embellished with stunning frescoes, the church of Santa Maria di Cerrate stands at the centre of a typical Salento manor farm. Once a Greek Orthodox monastery, then an[…]
The first documents referencing the Casamassella Castle and the settlement which surrounds it date from medieval times, when the castle was the fortified residence of the fiefdom of Ruggero Maramonte under the reign of Carlo I d’Angiò (Charles of Anjou).Its geographical location in the hinterlands immediately bordering Otranto, hidden from[…]
Masseria Spina Resort is one of the oldest historic residences in Puglia, with a long and fascinating history that began in the sixteenth century. Every detail of the resort unites nature, history and tradition harmoniously. The first settlements at Masseria Spina are among the most important examples of rupestrian civilization,[…]
Palazzo Auris was built in the 1800s in an ornate neoclassical style and boasts an imposing façade caratherized by a smooth ashlar face, divided in two orders. In the lower order, paired Ionic pilasters define the façade, which around the portal develops an harmonic movement of surfaces with the paired[…]
The Palace, located in the ancient square of Alessano, a byzantine village a few kilometers from the sea, was built in the late fifteenth century by the will of the Counts “del Balzo” who had inherited the county by Francesco della Ratta, the Count of Caserta, whose emblem, a sixteen-pointed[…]
Palazzo Pesce, is an historic house dating back to the end of the 18th century, born in the heart of Mola di Bari, an ancient town in Apulia overlooking the sea.The first owner was the noble Roberti family, who sold the house to the Martinelli’s in 1777, to move to[…]
Nardò. An art city, rich of palaces, towers, eclectic villas, castles, masserie, monumental gardens, natural parks, extended on a territory of 33 km, whose 23 on the coast with a crystalline and unpolluted sea. A sheer melting pot of Greek, Roman, Norman, Spanish and French dominations. In this unique location,[…]
Located on the edge of the earth, Santa Maria di Leuca, de Finibus Terrae, has ancient origins: Virgil talks about it in the Aeneid describing the landing of Aeneas at the Salentini. To the wonder of mythological events, we must add the one that comes from the contemplation of[…]
