MASSERIA MAGLI RESORT

The Farm Magli Resort, built in 1710, is situated in the middle of the Valle D‘Itria, plunged into a green landscape of olive trees and centuries-old woods.
After a careful restoration work, we offer to our guests the opportunity of staying in the uncontaminated nature, in rooms carefully furnished to exalt the original charm of the Farm.
The rooms, spacious and comfortable, offer the following services; the bathroom, air, conditioned, tv, telephone, frigobar, with a view over the country.
They are elegantly furnished with luxurious wooden furniture hand decorated with different colours for every room and all enriched by precious draperies.
The blending among the originality of the rooms, the care of the furnishing and of the detail makes particular and romantic the atmosphere of the stay .


Particular moments in which nature, art and tradition are merged in the splendid scenery of the farm Magli resort.
The structure is in the middle of a country estate of sixteen hectares, completely plunged in the green, among centuries- old olive trees and Mediterranean plants.
It is possible to admire a suggestive hilly landscape and to breathe the uncontaminated perfume of the country.
The guests can go for a walk around fields and woods, so to live a particular experience in the nature, in every season.


Where we are:
Airport Bari Palese: Km 67
Train Station FS di Fasano(BR): Km 22
Highway exit Bari: Km 61
Follow the road to Bari-Lecce E55, take the road to Fasano and go on to Locorotondo.From the SS.172 in the direction of Taranto turn left in Madonna Del Pozzo street, go straight on to Foggevo street finally take Magli street.
Airport Brindisi: Km 51
Follow the speedyway Lecce-Bari E55, take the road to Francavilla North-Ceglie Messapica,go straight on to Martina Franca and take the direction of Taranto, turn left in Madonna del Pozzo street, go straight on to Foggevo street, finally take Magli street.

Martina Franca...is a smart town settled 431 metres above sea level, lying over one of the last southern hills in the south-east of the Murgia area.
It overlooks the charming Valle d‘Itria, a beautiful region with trees and white houses called “trulli”.
The main attraction of the town is definitely the old town centre, a typical example of baroque art, with its smart streets, its white lanes, its elegant mansions and its stately and monumental churches.
Besides a fascinating landscape, marked by the ancient “casedde”, the famous “trulli” and the typical local farms called “masserie”, Martina Franca is surrounded by a Karst territory, rich in suggestive caves.
From its strategic position, the Ionic town offers to its visitors a striking view over the towns nearby, over which there are the cities of Brindisi and Bari and their territories and, still over, the Adriatic sea.
Martina Franca also offers to its visitors a chance to give a glance towards lovely woods, such as the enchanting “Parco delle Pianelle”, and towards green landscapes in the south.
These are mainly wide vines fields, and they represent little oasis of peace and tranquillity for holidaymakers and expecially for those who love farm holidays.
The town, in which nowadays live around 49.000 people, is also a very important site at national level for its clothes industry.
Other important sectors, leading the economy of the town, are agribusiness and breeding, thanks to the presence over the territory of a precious livestock, ackoledged all over Italy and abroad, whose main specimens are the famous donkey of Martina Franca and the Murgese horse.
Alberobello...
is a small town and comune in the province of Bari, in Puglia, Italy.
It has about 11,000 inhabitants and is famous for his unique trulli constructions.
The Trulli of Alberobello are part of the UNESCO World Heritage since 1996.
A trullo (plural, trulli) is a traditional Apulian stone dwelling with a conical roof.
The style of construction is specific to Itria Valley (in Italian: Valle d'Itria), in the Murge area of the Italian region of Apulia (in Italian Puglia).
They may be found in the towns of Alberobello, Locorotondo, Fasano, Cisternino, Martina Franca and Ceglie Messapica.
Trulli were generally constructed as dwellings or storehouses.
Traditionally they were built without any cement or mortar.
This style of construction is also prevalent in the surrounding countryside where most of the fields are separated by dry-stone walls.
The roofs are constructed in two layers: an inner layer of limestone boulders, capped by a keystone, and an outer layer of limestone slabs ensuring that the structure is watertight.
Originally, the conical structure would have been built directly on the ground, but most of the surviving structures are based on perimeter walls.
In Alberobello atop a trullo's cone there is normally a pinnacle, that may be one of many designs, chosen for symbolism.
Additionally, the cone itself may have a symbol painted on it (as shown in the picture of the trulli in Alberobello.) Such symbols may include planetary symbols, the malochio (evil eye), the cross, a heart, a star and crescent, or quite a few others.
The walls are very thick, providing a cool environment in hot weather and insulating against the cold in the winter.
The vast majority of trulli have one room under each conical roof: a multiroomed trullo house has many cones representing a room each.
Children would sleep in alcoves made in the wall with curtains hung in front.
There are many theories behind the origin of the design.
One of the more popular theories is that due to high taxation on property the people of Puglia created dry wall constructions so that they could be dismantled when inspectors were in the area.
Today the surviving trulli are popular among English and German tourists and are often bought and restored for general use.
However, anyone wishing to restore a trullo needs to conform with many regulations as trulli are protected under the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) world heritage law.
...Ostuni's area has been inhabited since the Stone age.
The town is reputed to have been originally established by the Messapii, a pre-classic tribe, and destroyed by Hannibal during the Punic Wars.
It was then re-built by Greek colons, since the current name derives from the Greek Astu néon ("new town").
Sacked after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, in 996 AD the town became part of the Norman County of Lecce.
From 1300 to 1463 was part of the Principality of Taranto and from 1507 (together with Villanova and Grottaglie) passed to the Dukedom of Bari of Isabella, wife to Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan.
Under the lordship of Isabella, Ostuni enjoyed a golden-age within the wider panorama of the Italian Renaissance age.
In this period Isabella took under her protection humanists and people of art and letters, including bishop Giovanni Bovio.
Isabella died in 1524 and Ostuni passed as dowry to her daughter Bona Sforza, wife-to-be of Sigismund II Augustus King of Poland.
Also during Bona Sforza's government, Ostuni enjoyed a liberal and magnanimous regimen.
In particular, in 1539 she had towers built along all the shoreline, in order to prevent eventual attacks from the Turks controlling the Balkans.
These towers (still existing, incl.
Pozzella Tower, the Pylon, Villanova and much more), were permanently garrisoned and communicated through ignited bonfire.
The so-called "Old Town" is Ostuni's citadel build on the top of a hill and still fortified with the ancient walls.
Ostuni is reputed an architectural jewel, and is commonly referred to as "the White Town" ("La Città Bianca", in Italian) for its white walls and its typically white-painted architecture.
A monument on its own, the town's largest buildings are the Cathedral and the Bishop's Palace, alongside with a few palazzi of some of the aristocratic families of the region: Aurisicchio, Ayroldi, Bisantizzi, Falghieri, Ghionda, Giovine, Jurleo, Marseglia, Moro, Palmieri, Petrarolo, Siccoda, Urselli, Zaccaria.
Outside the town, in the country's landscape there is the typical presence of the Pugliese "masserie", fortified large estate-farms, among which San Domenico, a masseria once held by the Knights of Malta.
In the summertime Ostuni is a famous destination for tourists from all over the country and from abroad.
The population rises from about 30.000 inhabitants in wintertime to about 100.000.
Castellana Caves...
40 Kms south-east of Bari, the busy, industrial and administrative capital of Apulia, lies the little town of Castellana whose origins go back even further than the 10th century.
For a number of years now, the town has been called Castellana-Grotte and is the most important tourist attraction in Apulia, as well as one of the most famous in the whole of southern Italy.
It owes its rapid and lucky notoriety to the discovery on January 23rd, 1938 of a vast system of natural underground caves.
The Grottos of Castellana represent one of the most important series of natural underground caves in Italy and Europe, a reputation gained not only because of their size but above all for the spectacularity of the natural galleries and the prodigious wealth of crystalline concretions
The Grotte di Castellana were discovered on January 23, 1938, by a team of local inhabitants led by Professor Franco Anelli.
The first explorations showed the relevance and the beauty of the karst system, that soon became one of the most famous caves in Europe.
In the following months, most of the cave was explored, and at the end of 1939 a tunnel was open on the north-eastern side of the Grave, the extraordinary entrance to the underground karst system, to allow the tourist exploitation of the site.
Since then, further explorations have been carried out up to reach the present length of the karst system, that is 3250 metres, a part of which is used as show cave.
In addition to the tourist path, the Grotte di Castellana presents several minor branches where the natural cave environment is still preserved.
In one of these, the maximum depth of the karst system at Castellana, that is 122 meters, has been reached.
Management of an outstanding show cave as the Grotte di Castellana poses several problems for the conservation of the karst environment.
The first works performed since 1939 at Castellana, at a time when scarce attention was paid to the safeguard of the natural environment, were realized with heavy use of concrete within the cave, and resulted in irreversible changes in the morphology of the karst system.
In 2000, a Technical-Scientific Committee has been established at the Grotte di Castellana to coordinate the scientific research carried out in the karst system, and to face the many problems related to management and protection of the cave.
Some of the latter are the object of this study, and specifically: the negative impact of tourists on the cave environment, and the need to regulate the number of visitors allowed; events of pollution from the ground surface; the ¸Sgreen diseaseˇT, that is the development of algae over the speleothems as an effect of the lighting system used in the cave; stability of rock walls and vaults in some caverns of the karst system.
Grottaglie...
is located in the Salento peninsula, a whole rock of limestone dividing Adriatic sea from Ionian sea.
The countryside around the city is scattered with vast and deep ravines that open the ground into the heart of the limestone-rock.
The landscape is characterized by the presence of such ancient and enthralling rupestrian ravine encircling the built-up area.
The name Grottaglie derives from the Latin Cryptae Aliae, meaning “many ravines”, which has been inhabited since the Palaeolithic Age.
The ancestral part of Grottaglie was one of the citadels in the area, referred to in Medieval documents as Casale Cryptalerum, founded during the Dark Ages by the inhabitants of the caves who sheltered there due to Saracen invasions.
The fief of Grottaglie was donated by the Norman overlords to the archbishopric of Taranto in the 11th century.
In the 14th century the ecclesiastic administration provided the fief with fortifications, walls, a castle (Castello Episcopio, Italian for “archbishop‘s castle”) as well as with the Chiesa Matrice ("Mother church").
Since the 15th-17th centuries the jurisdiction over Grottaglie fief was split between the ecclesiastic administration (civil law) and the lay feudal lords (criminal law, Cicinelli-Caracciolo family).
Fights between these two competing authorities and periodic revolts by the heavily-taxed population were the leit-motiv of Grottaglie‘s history until the abolition of feudalism (1806).
After the Italian unification Grottaglie had the first urban expansion outside its Medieval walls.
Folkloristic and religious events include the commemoration-day of St.
Cyrus and Easter-period when the Medieval-rooted confraternal religious orders perform their processions during the days of the Holy Week (Easter rituals include procession and pilgrimage of confrères called “Bubbli-Bubbli” through the streets of town).
Other events include:
- The exhibition “Ceramica nel Quartiere delle Ceramiche”
- The Mediterranean ceramics contest, theatrical and musical events
- Promotion of dessert grapes, months of July-August-September
- Exhibition-contest about ceramic crib scene during the months of December and January
- “Musica Mundi” – international festival of ethnic music in July.
Grapes and ceramics-industry are two traditional elements of the local economy since the times of Greater Greece.
The numerous ceramic finds, tracing back to the Classical Age and kept in the National Museum of "Magna Grecia" in Taranto, reveal the antique roots of this handicrafts production which was privileged by the presence of considerable amounts of clay in the surrounding territory.
More recently, records dating back to the 18th century report at the time 42 companies in Grottaglie operating in the ceramics-sector with a total of 5,000 employees.
In addition to ceramics, also agricultural products such as olive oil and excellent choice dessert grapes are of great importance.