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Once a region dominated by uninspiring three-stars, family beach resorts, and one or two stuffy grandes dames, Puglia has built a more happening accommodation scene over the last decade, particularly in the fertile Valle d'Itria and the Salento peninsula to the far south. Some of this has to do with the conversion of the area's characteristic fortified farmhouses, or masserie, into luxurious rural resort hotels (soon there will be no working farm estates left, as three or four new masseria hotels seem to open each season). The other novelty is the arrival of boutique hotels in historic towns like Ostuni, Gallipoli, and Lecce: These range from swish, ultra-design refuges for Milanese fashion victims, such as La Sommità Relais Culti, to whitewashed neo-bohemian warrens for modern-day Beat poets, such as Relais Corte Palmieri. Note that although some of the masserie and many seaside hotels are open only from Easter to around the end of October, Puglia is much more of a year-round destination than Capri or the Amalfi Coast.
Master restorer Martino Solíto reconstructed this nineteenth-century farmhouse on the outskirts of the medieval/Baroque town of Martina Franca using only...more
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