Farm-house La Badessa (Lecce)

Description La Badessa

An oasis of peace and the triumphal sounds of nature, where silence is broken only by chirping cicadas and singing birds.Tenuta Badessa is an estate with a long story to tell dating back to the early 14th century. Once owned by local monks, it was later acquired by rich French winemakers.For over one hundred years, it has been property of the Azzolini family who, at the beginning of the 20th century, turned it into a flourishing agricultural borough, with peasants’ dwellings, stables for animals, and warehouses for tools. Cattle were raised; oil and citrus fruits were produced.

Description rooms

The dwellings that once accommodated local peasants and their families have become nine delightful apartments. Spacious and airy, they feature antique decors and fittings, such as star-vaulted ceilings, fireplaces, arches, tuff rock ceilings and wrought iron beams. They offer ample living rooms with kitchenette, bedrooms with high ceilings, wrought iron beds and antique wooden furniture. Four apartments face the swimming pool and offer a private garden. The remaining five apartments look over the internal courtyard with a marvelous corner of countryside at their disposal. One of these five apartments is incredibly spacious and can accommodate up to eight guests. All apartments are equipped with air conditioning, television and private bathroom. On the first floor of the main building there are three guest rooms. Their prestigious location guarantees magnificent views. They are all equipped with air conditioning, television satellite,wi fi, private bathroom.

Services Farm-house

Swimming pool: Plunged amidst a luxuriant garden, flourishing with palm trees, lantanas, olive groves and citrus trees, the large 180 square meter swimming pool is a corner of paradise where guests can relax and enjoy fresh air during hot summer days.Activities: It is possible to stroll or ride on a bike around the estate among century-old olive groves and scented citrus trees.Parking facilities: A private, fenced parking lot is available to guests, where the shade of olive groves offers respite from summer heat.Services available on request, on payment: Transfer from/to airport, car rental, laundry service, baby-sitting, boat and inland excursions, private tours with guide, reservation of parasols and sun beds at the beach, beauty treatments and UV solarium. In the neighborhood, guests can have access to tennis, soccer, golf, horseback riding and scuba diving facilities. In the apartments, small and medium size pets are allowed.

restaurant Farm-house La Badessa

- “Tenuta Badessa” Restaurant: The old warehouse, once used to store agricultural tools, is now an excellent restaurant, where traditional recipes handed down from generation to generation are served using exclusively fresh and genuine ingredients: meatballs, pittule (deep fried dough), eggplant tart, orecchiette pasta in traditional Lecce sauce, spelt soup, mixed grilled meats, vegetables and fruit in season. - Dinner is served in a spacious room embellished with a monumental fireplace in Lecce stone, walls painted with brilliant colors, a modechandelier and stone wall lamps, red drapes and large ceramics plates decorating the walls. Large wall-to-wall glass windows offer a view over a courtyard equipped with a marquee for alfresco dinners during warmer months; farther ahead is the swimming pool amidst palm trees and lantanas. - from 01/10/2012 restaurant is open only with reservation for events.

Surroundings (Lecce)

Thanks to its unrivalled position (3 km from the sea, 15 km from Lecce and 35 km from Bridisi), Tenuta Badessa offers its guests the possibility to easily reach attractions of extraordinary natural and cultural interest.
You will be bewitched by the enchanting Salento sun, the contrasting colors of its land – from the red soil to the blue sky and the greenish silver olive groves – and the artistic and architectural heritage, the Baroque style that distinguishes Lecce and the Alberobello trulli (traditional Apulian stone dwellings with a conical roof).

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