Apulia - Salento and Pizzica

 SALENTO IN PIZZICA

Day 1

Arrival in Apulia for the first day of vacation in Italy, transfer by bus and hotel accommodation. Free time, dinner and overnight stay.

Day 2
Breakfast in the hotel. Our tour will start with a visit to a well-known company specialized in working the local stone of Lecce, a real asset to Salento. Our itinerary will then take us to Lecce. Lecce is nicknamed “The Florence of the South” and is the second Italian most representative city of the Baroque art. Our guided tour will tell us how the Baroque and the Art Nouveau have made Lecce one of a kind for its magnificence. We will have lunch in a restaurant in the inner city where we will taste the exquisite dish “Ciceri e Tria”, chickpeas with fresh pasta. In the afternoon, we will have free time. During this time, we recommend you a visit to the artisan workshops of local stone, earthenware and papier-mâché. Before leaving from the main square, Piazza Sant’Oronzo, indulge ourselves with the “Pasticciotto”, a short crust pastry stuffed with custard and baked, to sweeten our coming back to the hotel. In the evening dinner and overnight stay.

Day 3
Breakfast in the hotel. Departure to Alberobello, one of the most renowned UNESCO sites, making Apulia famous worldwide: the trulli of Alberobello. The narrow, winding alleys going uphill and the ancient cone-shaped roof, dry-stone buildings are the undisputed protagonists of Alberobello, a unique town. We will, then prepare together, in a trullo, some of the traditional dishes of the Apulian cuisine, which we will later try at lunch. Tales and old popular beliefs will be referred to during the guided visit to the characteristic Cathedral and to the “Sovereign Trullo”. Our tour will go on with a walk through the alleys of the Medieval Locorotondo and with a tasting of the local wine. In the evening, return to hotel, dinner and overnight stay.

Day 4

Breakfast in the hotel, during the fourth day of holiday in Apulia, we will be getting the true flavors of Salento by visiting a local olive-mill and tasting the different kinds of olive oil. Departure to Otranto and guided visit of the “Italy’s easternmost town”. In Otranto, we will admire the mosaic pavement (13th century) of the Cathedral of Santa Maria Annunziata and the Aragonese Castle rising close to the sea and surrounded by a wide and profound moat. Typical products will be served at lunch and plenty of free time will be available in the afternoon. After coming back to the hotel, typical dishes from Salento for dinner and the pizzica dance will await us. We will get involved in the pizzica, the folk dance rich in local colorful traditions, from the first moment. Overnight stay.

Day 5

Breakfast in the hotel. Today the tour have been thought to give its participants the chance to spend some good time on beaches and to enjoy the transparent and heavenly sea of Salento, one of the most beautiful ones. We will visit a winery, have lunch and taste the local wines there. Not far from the winery, Galatina, “the town of wine”, rises. Galatina is a sought-after destination for its artistic and cultural heritage, having one of the most intriguing old town centers in Salento, with civil and religious buildings of undisputed prestige. In the evening, return to hotel, dinner and overnight stay.

Day 6
Breakfast in the hotel, our last full day of holidays in Apulia will give us the memorable chance to go on a boat trip to visit the Zinzulusa Cave. Considered one of the most interesting and charming examples of the karstification process, the Zinzulusa Cave opens up into the sea on the coast between Santa Cesarea Terme and Castro. We will have lunch in a typical seaside restaurant and we will have free time for the afternoon. In the evening, return to hotel, dinner and overnight stay.

Day 7
Breakfast in hotel. It is time to say goodbye to Salento, keeping the memories of a place to love. Checkout hotel. End of our tour in Italy.

Price per person starting from: € 1.390,00

From April to November 2015. For July and August price on request.


Rate valid for minimum 8 people and include:

• Private bus transfer during the tour
• Guided tour in Foreign Languages
• Accommodation in 4**** Hotel (or similar)
• Accommodation in double room, daily half – board (excluding beverages)
• Lunches in the restaurant as the program
• Cooking class (half day) in Alberobello
• Olive oil and wine tastings
• Boat trip to Zinzulusa Cave (the boat trip will only take place if the minimum number of participants required will be reached)
• Special “Salento Night” (the Salento Night will only take place if the minimum number of participants required will be reached)
• Tickets
• Insurance
• Support services available during the entire trip in Puglia

Rates do not include:

• International and domestic flights
• Tips and extras
• Beverages
• Single room supplement
• Any personal extra charge

Self-drive tour for 2 people, price on request
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Borgoterra - Dimora Storica

In the historical centre of Martano, in the heart of Grecia Salentina, Borgoterra holidays is the only receptive extra-hotel structure realized in the province of Lecce, consisting in the creation of a chain of good quality accomodations whose historical and cultural characteristics are the ideal framework for holidays suitable to discover the towns, the environments, the customs of the territory and people living here.

The flats are built in accomodations which date back to XV and XVII century, reconciling quality and modern comfort with local architecture. To built Borgoterra, the process of restoration was conceived with precision and care, using the same materials of the past.

Elegant in the architectural and decorative solutions, it enjoys of ah ideal setting between the Adriatic coast and the Ionic coast, in the heart of Grecia Salentina, at few minutes from Otranto, Gallipoli and Lecce, in a romantic corner full of folk traditions and great events( Tarantula’ s Night, festivals, fairs, parties of pizzica and wine gastronomic itineraries).

On the structure there are five flats with two rooms, a suite with five rooms and
The ancient and modern melts in an harmonic whole of architecture and art, giving a sense of well-being that pervades the whole structure .

Living in Borgoterra means to live into a direct contact with the typical customs
and traditions of this land. Places where the tourist can know the artistic properties of remarkable importance and he can taste the produces of the Salento country.
double-services and a one-room flat, all well furnished with a cooking corner and endowed of the more modern comfort( air conditioning, TV, etc.) .




The Flats 

The flats have a refined and careful structure, built with the higest care and attention, both in the appearance and in the functional aspect; their clothes, furnishings and accessories are designed and realized to give our guests the pleasure to live an incomparable emotion.
Aestethic flavours of contemporary tastes macaws melt with elements of ancient and classical memory, for long moments of relax, out from the chaotic flow of modern life.

The flats have different typologies and particularities: almost all flats have the old roofs built in the old metod of “incannucciata” with great beam covered with reeds and tiles; some others have “Leccese vaults” and have a private balcony and a small garden; some others look out into the old “corte” ( common courtyard).

Moreover all flats have moreover the most modern comfort ( air conditioning, TV, fridge).



IF REQUESTED

Rooms for people with a handicap   
Covered car park
Restaurant working under the healt service with tipical cooking
Courses for the working leccese stone
Trials in bicycles on humatic routes
Leaded visits in the Grecia Salentina and in Salento
Settering service   
Fax service   
Internet service   

BEACH
Borgoterra is working under the healt service with “I due mori” lido in Alimini (Otranto) and it can reserve for its customers beach-umbrellas and deck-chair for payment. (It is advisable to reserve when you book the flats)

Borgoterra is a receptive structure affiliated with FIAB (Italian Federation bycicle friends), it offers a safe place for bycicle, to hire bycicle, and it is working under the healt service with service with a repair garage.

Moreover it organizes guided bycicle trips, on easy and medium journey, or on cycle hath, organized by the province of Lecce among the most beautiful places and foreshortening of Salento’s coast, Alimini lakes, green countries with their olive-trees, symbol of the salentino territory.

MARTANO

Martano is a little town with about ten thousand inhabitans, situated into an important cross road, which joins it easly to Lecce, Otranto, Gallipoli.
The origins of Martano, enveloped by a legendary halo, has some testimony in the prehistory; infact the presence of megalithic monuments such as “La Specchia dei Mori” (a huge heap of stones for worship and funeral purpose), “The Menhir of Teofilo” (column of the “chiofelu” or column of the Devil), those monuments check the human settlement since the Neolithic age.
Martano, until the second half of XIV century was surrounded by mighty wall as it can be deduced by the fastness and grandeur of the tower next to Mazzotti’s house, it is the only tower remained, which strengthen the town walls, which, starting from the Aragonese castle and surrounding the built-up area, joined together again at the Castle where today we can see the clock tower.
In XVII century outside from the structural town walls beautiful palaces were built, and still today they are the more significant architectonic element of the predominant part that the small had in past times on the near towns. All, works, of skilful stonemasons, who carved the leccese stone.

We can still admire Pino Palace, Andrichi Palace, Micali Palace, Stampacchia Palace, Scarpa Palace’s portal, Sergio Palace’s portal. Martano still preserves a living testimony of a millenary culture: the use of the dialect “griko”, which until all XVI century was the only language used by the Martano people to communicate.

GRECÌA SALENTINA

Grecia Salentina is situated in the heart of Salento, among Lecce, Otranto and Gallipoli. It is here that the story of nine towns mingled in the time around a common element:
The Greek language, with its customs. Infact it is here that in the course of centuries some treasures are kept and visitors can enjoy still today: traditions, story, culture, nature, music, gastronomy. All this is enveloped by the heat of the sun, which made the old olive-trees grow and has modelled the hospitable nature of these people.


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Masseria TORRE MAIZZA - C.da Coccaro, sn - 72015 Savelletri di Fasano (Brindisi) Puglia - Italy

WELCOME

Torre maizza an ancient Masseria set in a vaste estate overlooking the mediterranean sea.

A 5 star luxury resort with AVEDA SPA, Torre Maizza offers all the amenities and activities fora n exclusive vacation in Puglia

THE MASSERIA

The Masseria is set in a vaste agricultural  estate overlooking the Mediterranean sea which is only at 1.5 km.

Immersed in the olive groves that date back to the year 1000 you can walk through fruit and vegetables plantations and our own raisins. Smell the perfume of Mediterranean bushes, myrtle and jasmines.

ROOMS AND SUITES

26 rooms of which 2 suites wioth private pool and jacuzzi, 5 junioor suite deluxe, 1 junior suite, 15 superior rooms,3 classic, all rooms have garden, bathtub, hairdrier, wirelless internet, pay TV, safe, minibar, cordless telefone, Tivoli audio

SERVICES

Restaurants

 In the masserias we believe in researching the local environment for natural materials, we believe in the km zero philosophy, we always collaborate with local farms from were to choose the best local Murgia lamb and podolic beef, the chickens and turkeys, the Masserias were they make the best cheeses; burrata, canestrato, caciocavallo.

We have a network of people that looks for the wild materials such as: porcini and cardoncelli mushrooms, wild asparagus and snails, myrtle, wood berries and many more. The nearby fishing village of Savelletri offers the best of  fish of the day: scampi and violte shrimps, red tuna,snappers,monfish and turbots, seafood and local spiny lobsters.

Above all the fruits and vegetables produced in our estate.

Maizza offers a choice of 4 restaurants: 

The Restaurant Le Palme with creative cuisine with a magnificent rooms with high ceilings overlooking the pool or on the terrace with great view of the orange garden. 

Our Chef Vito Giannuzzi won the Italian Championship of Mediterranean Cuisine March 2009.

Restaurant Egnathia at gthe adiacent sister property Masseria Coccaro with vaulted star ceilings in the old stables dating back to 1600 with a magnificent pergola and terraces full of bouganivillae and jasmines with great views of the countryside – tipical Mediterranean cuisine.

Cabana restaurant poolside with light menus under the pergola for lunch.

Coccaro Beach Club, the exclusive sea restaurant with fish, sushi and oyster bar.

SPA AVEDA 

Set in an atmosferic Tower in the Spa we used natural materials such as wood, rice paper, flagstone and the view of the olive trees and the sea. There is a large gym technogym, indoor pool, whirpool,Turkish bath with eucalyptus oil. 

THE TREATMENTS - the treatments at the Masseria use herbs and fruits organic from the estates property of Aveda. The moss, yucca, aloe vera, camomill, lime,esotic fruits, herbs, essential oils will permit to follow a real fitotherapy personalized to your needs. 

MASSAGES – a vast choice from traditional ayurvedic, to water mattress, shiatsu and foot reflexology, but what is more important is the experience of our therapists, we believe that the centre of the therapy is always the human touch.

SERVICES

COCCARO BEACH CLUB: the beach

An exclusive luxury lounge on the cristal clear Salento sea.

In a long stretch of private sandy beach with secular dunes, a long beach were to walk all the way to the local fishing village.

A wooden teak terrace under white tents and private gazeboes for privacy.

A fantastic fish restaurant, fish and oyster bar and of course is possible also to taste the cuisine and the cocktails from the bar directly on you sunbeds on the beach.

A lounge area under the palms were there are the massage and treatments pavillons under tents and canes.

A quiet mini club with babysitters for the kids.

A trendy boutique with the newest clothes fro Milan,Paris, Formentera and Marakkech.

Beach volley and Football small pitch. In the summer becomes the trendiest location for exclusive parties with the best DJs and the Most Beutiful People.

Anchored facing the beach our private motor yacht with the skipper for water sky or for excursion to the sea caves of Polignano a Mare, the antique port of Monopoli for swimming in quiet bays and scuba diving

Golf

Puglia is the region in south of italy with the most Golf courses.

Five 18 holes golf courses in 1 hour radius.

Torre Maizza has its own 9 holes Golf, in an incredible setting with huge olive grives overlooking the sea with sand and pitching green, putting green and driving range.

MEETINGS

Masseria Torre Maizza is venue for meetings and events, with our vaulted ceilings in the olive mill, beautiful  lounges with  fireplaces for smaller meetings or wine tastings.

We specialize in post congress with our activities: wine visits,bicycle rides, golf, beach activities,quad bikes,SPA, cooking schools, please contact us for more info etc.

RELAIS LA FONTANINA CEGLIE MESSAPICA - PUGLIA

S.P. 28 Ostuni - Francavilla Fontana, Km 9,00 - contrada Palagogna
Incrocio S.S. 581 Ceglie Messapica - San Vito dei Normanni
Ceglie Messapica (Brindisi) Puglia



WELCOME

La Fontanina Hotel: Restaurant and Wine Hotel

This superb wine resort blends the evocative architecture of Apulian manor farms with the comfort of modern hospitality, surrounded by a vibrant olive grove, almond trees and enveloped by a spellbinding Mediterranean essence, at the border between Itria Valley and Salento at a few kilometres from Ostuni and its wonderful beaches (2009 FEE Blue Flag award).

 LA FONTANINA RELAIS

Amidst the calmness of the countryside, La Fontanina Hotel offers to its guests the opportunity to relax and dawdle in a lush landscape abounding with appealing natural scenery and distinctive architecture. We are certain that this charming place, where to indulge your senses, will fully satisfy you as it is equipped with 36 guest rooms, a recently inaugurated wellness centre and one of the most renowned restaurants acknowledged by the top magazines of the field.

LAMIA SUITE

Suited for the demanding guest, “lamia suite”, is an antique countryside residence of the late 1800s located within the hotel boundaries, looking out to the main swimming pool and to the vegetable garden, inclusive of a private sun porch, it is divided into 4 rooms, corresponding to 80 square meters of space: an entrance hall, one bedroom equipped with a 36” plasma TV, a living room furnished with a 48” plasma TV, a DVD player, a ready-made DVD collection and a personal computer connected to a secured Wi-Fi network connection, one bathroom, showcasing a gorgeous antique stone, double shower and a mini private wellness centre which includes a Jacuzzi, a Turkish steam bath (Hamam) and an exercise bike (bikeforma technogym).

ROOMS

36 rooms of which 23 comfort rooms provided with air-conditioned, large bathrooms, a shower, a hair dryer, a 26” plasma TV, a radio, a mini bar and a direct dial telephone. 12 new superior rooms equipped with a private patio garden, a Jacuzzi, a 28” plasma TV, a safe, an in-room selection of herbal teas, a free Wi-Fi network connection and 1 exclusive “Lamia Suite”, 80 square meters of space which encompasses a bedroom, a living room furnished with a 48” plasma TV, a DVD player, a ready-made DVD collection and a PC, a bathroom with a double shower and a mini Spa along with a Jacuzzi, a Turkish steam bath (Hamam) and an exercise bike (bikeforma technogym).

WINE HOTEL

We have devoted 12 rooms to the world of wine, each one of them bears the name of a peculiar wine, or of a winery whose undisputed quality has made Apulia shine in all its excellence.
The idea of a wine hotel, isn’t merely carried out through hospitality, in dedicated rooms and with theme dinners, we also offer to our guests the opportunity to find out for themselves the fruitful wisdom and the entrepreneurial excellence of the wineries in partnership with the Relais La Fontanina.

RESTAURANT

Francesco, Evelyn and Antonella coordinated by Massimo, along with Mimmo and Roberto together with “mamma” Immacolata and “papà” Nicola, will give you a warm welcome to this Apulian corner of the world.
Relais La Fontanina, in the Heart of Apulia, the Heart of Apulia.

WELLNESS

“Quanta serenità, quale freschezza nello spirito... e che pace interiore - L. Pirandello”
(What peacefulness, which dewy spirit ... and inner tranquillity)
Sadly, our urban life is a cyclical rat race ... so let’s indulge in a moment of pure rest...
...wellness... a magic word, immediately associated with a multidimensional state of well-being and blissful existence where health and in specific inner health, is perceived as an absolute value able to steer our senses towards a complete state of well-being...
We are certain that you’ll find our wellness centre the relaxing oasis you have been looking for.

MEETINGS AND CONVENTIONS

To complement our range of services, we also offer a suitable space for business meetings: on one hand, our private meeting room envisioned for exclusive dinners or meetings while, on the other hand, the “Klimt” Hall conceived for banquets and conventions.

SPECIAL REQUESTS

Relais La Fontanina has a suggestion for every event or occasion and it will put its experience in the field to work for you along with its always original offers.

WEEKEND DEL GUSTO

Within a completely renewed framework, our “weekends del Gusto”  (“tickle your taste buds” weekends) will take place, as they do every year, at the Relais La Fontanina.
Feel free to stay overnight in one of our rooms taking advantage of our wonderful wellness centre available to you even for a brief, relaxing and regenerating, holiday in the Itria Valley.