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Masseria Le Lamie

A nineteenth-century masseria above Villa Castelli, between Brindisi and the Itria Valley — vaulted stone rooms, a long pool ringed by olive trees, and a kitchen that draws from…

La note

A working Apulian masseria held quietly — vaulted rooms in honey-coloured stone, a long pool cut into the olive grove, and a small kitchen written from the surrounding land. The Puglia of long lunches and slower afternoons, kept at its own pace.

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Les particularités

Style: Nineteenth-century Apulian masseria, restored with vaulted stella ceilings and arched courtyard
Estate: Olive groves and vineyards above Villa Castelli, in the province of Brindisi
Rooms: Seven categories — standard, superior and deluxe doubles, a pool-view room, family rooms and a triple
Table: One restaurant, helmed by chef Domenico Derinaldis, drawn from the orchard and the orto
Cellar: Roughly a hundred and fifteen labels, weighted to Puglia and the south
Pool: A long stone-rimmed pool below the masseria, set into the olive grove
Workshop: Ceramics on the wheel, orecchiette by hand, a wine flight at dusk — bookable by the hour
Best for: A long Puglia week, paired with a few days in Ostuni or down the coast at Polignano
Season: May through early October — peak garden in June, the harvest light through September

Masseria Le Lamie sits above Villa Castelli, in the western edge of the province of Brindisi — a nineteenth-century Apulian masseria restored slowly into a small hotel. The shape is the one this corner of Puglia has held for two centuries: a single low building of honey-coloured stone, a courtyard at the centre, vaulted rooms running off it, olive grove and vineyard at the gate.

What the property has and most of the new Puglia hotels don't is a kept pace. Seven rooms is the size of the house, not a target — the masseria's furniture, food and rhythm are still set by hand. The kitchen runs one menu drawn from the kitchen garden, the orchards at the property, and the Adriatic an hour east. The cellar holds roughly a hundred and fifteen labels, almost all Apulian. The pool is cut into the grove below the house; the small workshop where guests throw clay or roll orecchiette is around the corner.

Villa Castelli is twenty minutes from Ostuni, half an hour from Cisternino and Martina Franca, an hour from the Adriatic at Polignano. The day shape is the long Apulian one — a slow morning at the property, a wheel or pasta hour after lunch, an early-evening drive into the white town for an aperitivo, dinner on the terrace before the sun is fully gone.

Moments choisis

Aerial view of the masseria's long pool ringed by stone and surrounded by olive groves under southern light.

The pool, cut into the grove

A long pool sits below the masseria, ringed in pale Apulian stone and held inside the olive grove. The terraces run to the trees; the sunbeds stay where the shadow falls. Most afternoons end here, then move to the table.

An octopus and stracciatella plate with toasted almonds and slices of citrus, sunlight catching the rim of the dish.

A plate from the orto

One restaurant, written from the kitchen garden and the surrounding orchards. Octopus from the Adriatic an hour away, almonds picked on the property, oranges and orange blossom from the orchard at the gate. Apulian to the bone, served unhurriedly.

Close view of two clay-covered hands shaping a tall vessel on a spinning potter's wheel, reed screen behind.

An afternoon at the wheel

A small workshop runs on the property — ceramics in the morning, pasta or wine in the afternoon. The pots dry in the courtyard and travel home with you a week later, glazed and fired by the artisan who taught the wheel.

Dans la maison

The pool seen from a low angle through olive branches, Apulian stone surround and clear southern water.

A small chapel-shaped pavilion above the pool, prickly pear and aloe in the foreground against a cloud-streaked sky.

A bedroom under a vaulted stella ceiling in honey-coloured stone, glass doors open onto an ancient olive in the courtyard.

A guest reading at a stone table under the courtyard portico, late morning light through the trees.

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