Position
The Salento countryside, with its scents and colours, is easily accessible by air and rail. Villa Baraquiel and Villa Jehudiel are very close to Ostuni, Ceglie Messapica, and Alberobello, just 20 minutes from Brindisi Airport, 15 kilometres from the white shores of the Adriatic coast, and one hour from the Ionian coast.
Ferry services to the Greek islands from the port of Brindisi are only 20 minutes away. The estate is surrounded by farms at which guests are welcome to taste and buy local products of the traditional, rich Salentino cuisine.
Land
Pulia is a landscape filled with classic beauty: a land with no steep slopes, mild weather and sunshine nearly all year round, geometric stretches of red land and no surface water courses, olive groves as far as the eye can see and neat vineyards in rows. Villa Baraquiel and Villa Jehudiel are surrounded by a park of olive, almond, fig, and pomegranate trees, as well as long stone walls where to stop and listen to the hypnotic song of cicadas, losing all sense of time.
The Trulli
Trulli (from the late Greek word ΤΡΟΎΛΟΣ, dome) are traditional Apulian stone dwellings with a conical roof, dating back to the proto-historic period, and are typical of the centre/south of Apulia. They were once used by farmers for their housing and working needs. Some trulli were used for the storage of agricultural tools, raw clay baskets and pots, and ceramic containers for oil, wine, and cereals. In 1996, the trulli were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
The trulli stand out like stone tents in the green landscape of olive trees, exhibiting their white pinnacles and displaying mysterious signs on the convex side of their cones: crosses, crescent moons, stars, and angels protecting the hearth – ancestral traditions of an agricultural and deeply spiritual culture, profoundly linked to natural symbolism. The trulli have been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site and are the most exciting discovery in a land that has such a rich architectural and environmental identity.
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