From a fortified rural home to protect people, animals, and crops from raiders from the Eastern Mediterranean to a resort offering first-class hospitality, both familiar and elegant, the Masseria is today the symbol of Puglia. Across the border, wherever there is a cultured traveler, willing to go beyond a comfortable welcome and perceive the essence of the place, to savor authentic traditions as well as good food, to observe panoramas where even the horizon takes center stage, the term Masseria immediately evokes the entire region, its coasts, its luminous and silent countryside, its generous and cheerful people, its artistic beauties of absolute importance.
Because of their distribution across a land so far out into the sea that it seems more like an island than the last strip of a continent, these buildings, so simple in their external appearance but so intricately structured within, seem like small scattered pearls, solitary strongholds where East and West have long met and where today, thanks to guests from every country, one can breathe in the culture of the world.
