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Two hectares of private land. Luxury villa

Private estate with private pool and SPA surrounded by the nature of the Itria Valley – Martina Franca – Puglia – Italy
5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, large, gazebo, solarium, spa, large swimming pool.

31/10/2026

Travertine still cool against your bare feet at dawn, the limestone wall holding the last of the night's shade.

This is the hour before the heat — and the hour before the music begins elsewhere in the valley. July turns Martina Franca operatic: the Festival della Valle d'Itria fills the courtyards of the old town with voices that carry into the summer dark. Locus Festival threads the white towns with sound. Cinzella answers from the quarries in August.

A short drive from the villa, the season becomes a soundtrack. And then — the gate closes behind you, the park goes quiet, the water in the pool sits flat and waiting.

Go out for the night. Come home to the silence.

Which festival night would you drive out for first?

Follow for the most beautiful corners of Valle d'Itria.

30/10/2026

Picture this: you step down a few travertine stairs, pull open the glass doors, and the kitchen opens onto the patio just as the olive tree outside catches the light.

That's the living here. Great windows frame the greenery, limestone steps climb toward the garden, and inside the lines stay quiet — raw plaster, honeyed stone underfoot, nothing shouting for attention.

It's the kind of space the architect behind it, Stella Maris Gonzales of Dolce&Gabbana, understood well: luxury that whispers. Interiors of 310 sqm across two levels, panoramic windows unlike any in the region, a great living room with its lounge and fireplace flowing out to the patio.

Twenty thousand square metres of private park around you. Nowhere to be. Everything within reach.

Bookings via the link in bio.

29/10/2026

Based here? You're 30–60 minutes from whitewashed hilltowns, a Greek-founded port and two coastlines. Save this map of easy escapes. 🚗🫒🌊

Some of the most beautiful corners of Puglia are closer than you think. Here's your two-seas day-trip map from Martina Franca:

1. Martina Franca — your Baroque home base in the heart of the Valle d'Itria, famed for 'bombette' and the July–August Festival della Valle d'Itria at the Palazzo Ducale.

2. Locorotondo — 10 km away, named for its round layout, one of Italy's 'Borghi più belli', home to a crisp white DOC w**e (pair it with nearby Cisternino).

3. Ostuni — 'La Città Bianca', its lime-washed old town crowning a hill above olive groves, 40 minutes away and perfect for a half-day.

4. Taranto's MArTA — Greek-founded by the Spartans, home to the dazzling 'Ori di Taranto'. First Sunday of the month? Free entry.

5. Taranto's Città Vecchia — an island between the Mar Grande and Mar Piccolo, guarded by the Aragonese Castle: the city of two seas.

6. Polignano a Mare — cliffs above the Adriatic, birthplace of 'Volare', with the unforgettable Lama Monachile beach (pair with Monopoli's harbour).

7. Campomarino di Maruggio — sandy Ionian shores with calm, shallow water, south of Taranto for the slowest of beach days.

Save this for your journey, and follow us for more Valle d'Itria. Stays await via the link in bio. 🫒

25/10/2026

Burrata was born of thrift. In the Murgia, cheesemakers wrapped leftover mozzarella scraps and cream inside a pouch of stretched curd — nothing wasted, everything made beautiful. That generosity is still here, in the pull of the knife and the slow spill of stracciatella across the plate.

Here it meets avocado cream, pickled red onion, poppy-seed crisps and a scatter of crisped guanciale — cool against warm, soft against crackle.

This is Puglia's genius: humble beginnings, luxurious ends. The kind of plate best enjoyed slowly, on a patio of Trani stone, with the Itria Valley stretched out around you.

Bookings via the link in bio.

📷 Photo: Andy Li / Wikimedia Commons (CC0)

25/10/2026

Burrata, taralli, cold Verdeca from the hills around the villa — the Itria Valley on one table.

What's the first Apulian bite you reach for?

Bookings via the link in bio.

📷 Photos: Valerialucatello, Giuseppevalvano, Gianjo, Matteo Amorino / Wikimedia Commons (CC)

24/10/2026

Someone slips off their shoes at the water's edge, drink in hand, and the pool goes glassy enough to hold the whole pergola upside down. July evenings in the Valle d'Itria have a sound to them — and this year it carries from the stages all around us.

Martina Franca fills with voices as the Festival della Valle d'Itria takes the opera outdoors. A short drive opens the summer wide: and for the nights that run late, for the music that moves you, when you want to laugh until it hurts.

Then back here. The gazebo table set for eighteen. The rooftop above, waiting for the stars. A whole festival season, and your own quiet corner of it to return to.

Which stage would you drive out to first — the opera in Martina Franca, or a late set under the summer sky?

Follow for the most beautiful corners of Valle d'Itria.

23/10/2026

Travertine in soft blocks, stacked warm-toned against a wall of lime-white plaster. Set into the niches, pumi in glossy ceramic — the little finials Puglia hands down for luck — line up like quiet guardians along the corridor.

This is the grammar of the villa: traditional materials, refined finishes, nothing shouting. Stone and light, shaped two ways — the rough honesty of travertine, the smooth white of a glazed form — held in balance across 310 square metres on two levels.

Details like these came from the work with architect Stella Maris Gonzales. Nothing is accidental here. Even a hallway is composed.

Bookings via the link in bio.

18/10/2026

Have you ever watched orecchiette dry in the December sun?

Here they are, trays of them set out along a sunlit street in the Valle d'Itria — thumb-pressed into shape, laid on wood, left to firm in the winter air beside a small Christmas tree and its red ribbon. Pale gold, a few tinted green and orange. Little ears, each one made by hand.

This is Puglia's oldest culinary language. No machine, no hurry. Just flour, water, a worn knife and a practised thumb, repeated a thousand times until the tray is full.

Bring a bag back to the villa. Cook them simply — the way they're meant to be — and eat slowly in the park, the countryside stretching out in every direction. Food here isn't a performance. It's the rhythm of the place.

Bookings via the link in bio.

📷 Photo: Maddy16869 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

18/10/2026

Two espresso cups on the tray, white ceramic pumi beside the bed — slow mornings, the Puglian way.
Which side of the bed takes the first coffee?
Bookings via the link in bio.

16/10/2026

A narrow passage in travertine, lined with hand-shaped pumi set into recessed niches — the little ceramic good-luck finials of Puglia, placed one by one.

This is the kind of detail that runs through the whole house: traditional materials, refined finishes, a design shaped with architect Stella Maris Gonzales. Local stone underfoot, soft plaster walls, light moving slowly through the day.

Beyond the glass, one of the five en-suite bedrooms waits. Linen turned down, the quiet of twenty thousand square metres of private park just outside.

Small things, chosen with care. The villa is full of them.

Bookings via the link in bio.

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