HOTEL OSTUNI PALACE

Puglia Hotels: a luxury hotel in the centre of Ostuni, a classy restaurant, the elegant rooms finished in every detail.
Our guests love stylish places, ancient atmospheres and a suggestive elegance:
the most modern comforts with an excellent service will make your visit to this wonderful land special.
Begininng in Spring 2010 the hotel will be provided with a Welness Center and a Congress Room.

The 34 elegant and refined rooms, finished in every detail, have a private bathroom with tub or shower, air conditioner, independent heathing, satellite tv, bar, safe with personal code, internet, direct phone line and room service on demand.
You will enjoy a stunning sight on the suggestive historical centre of Ostuni and its completely white houses, recalling a dream atmosphere, seeming to stop time.
Three Types of Room:
● Classic only double/matrimonial rooms
● Romantic larger than the classic, with the option to add an extra bed
● Studio up to four persons with graceful sitting-room.

San Filippo Restaurant...
The De Pascale - Carlucci family tradition made with the territory care, the Slow Food and the typical products a style of life driven by passion, research and experiment.
Basically, understanding the origins to get to the goal.
San Filippo Restaurant was opened in Carovigno in 2004.
Due to the high appreciation of its clients, since the beginning it has become a certainty and it has been considered by many gastronomic guides a rampart of the Puglia Region Cuisine.
In 2008 the meeting with the Martucci family, an immediate feeling which has led to move to Ostuni and has made the Ostuni Palace Restaurant a real point of strength of the entire hotel.
The new location is an enchanted space where the local stone and the characteristic star vaults are the masters.

Palace Cafe'...
A glass of wine, an appetizer, a coffee to be tasted in our tiny square and..
on the horizon...
the stunning Ostuni, the White City, spreading and reminding flavours, feelings and unforgettable pictures.
The live music in the background makes the atmosphere magical.
The Palace Café features are the most popular cocktails and drinks to be tasted with fantastic finger foods, the special cigars collection to be linked together chocolate cru, a great distilleds selection and our infusions to be sipped into unique landscapes.

Meeting & Spa...
Begininng in Spring 2010 the hotel will be provided with a Welness Center offering a perfect combination of classical beauty and regeneration treatments.
Our Center will have a pool with hot tube, spa, Turkish bath, well equipped Gym and Fitness Center, massage room, aesthetical treatments room and a relax room.
In the same period we will inaugurate a Congress Room with polifunctional spaces to receive up to 100 people with a banquet and coffee break service.
Really refined, elegants, exclusive spaces to emphasize any event.

How to get there:
In only five minutes you will reach Piazza S.
Oronzo, the suggestive Rione Terra, the Cathedral, the City Museum or simply make shopping in the pretty tiny stores.
Walking through the narrow streets will be magical and you will feel surrounded by an ancient atmosphere.
Our enchanted beaches are only 7 minutes by car.
Five 18 Holes Golf Clubs are really close: Golf Club Acaya – Riva dei Tessali – Golf Club Barialto – Metaponto Golf Club – San Domenico
You can easily reach the City of Ostuni:
● by Car: Motorway A14 Milano-Bari / A16 Roma-Bari Bari Nord Exit, direction Brindisi S.S.
379, Bari-Brindisi Villanova Exit
● by Train: Ostuni Railways 6 Km (Shuttle Service Available)
● by Plane: Papola/Brindisi 25 Km – Palese/Bari 90 km (Shuttle Service Available)
● by Ferry-boat: Brindisi Port 28 Km (Shuttle Service Available).

Ostuni...
The "Citta Bianca" looks like built of white and light and its visit is an unforgettable experience.
The breathless landscape on the lower valley and the blue sea suddenly opens when turning the old town corners.
The old town centre, called Terra, in the same time monument and place of the Historical Memory, is a maze full of amazing charme, keeping the Medieval Architecture, made of little and narrow streets and arches, surrounded by the powerful City Walls.
The White Maze, lime painted, named "CITTA' BIANCA", is interrupted by the ochre faces of ancient palaces, the churches, the fanciful portals exalting the beauty of the local stone.
The ancient Messapic City, was conquered by the Romans, which have left traces in the ancient town and in the "MASSERIE", built on the remains of Romans Villas.
Ostuni has been pillaged by Hannibal and after it has been rebuilt by the Greek settlers and probably the white color of the houses depends on this colonization
After the Roman Empire Fall, Ostuni was prey of the Longobards, the Byzantine, the Saracens and the Normans.
The territory of Ostuni has been already inhabited by Palaeolhytical Neanderthalian hunters: traces of this colonization are well kept in the Phalaeolhtycal Civilizations Museum in the old Church of the S.
Vito Martire in the old town of Ostuni.
Ostuni was elected City of Art on 1998 because of its historical, artistic beauties and for its land: what the visitors appreciate is the binomial culture-environment.
Ostuni, is a very ancient town with a great patrimony to be still discovered in part.
The City of Ostuni is in the middle of the Puglia Region: it will be easy to visit the City of Lecce and its famous and unique Baroque, the City of Bari and its Gotic Architecture and the Magna Grecia City of Taranto and its historical Museum.
The stay in Ostuni is strategic for visiting the nearby places: Valle D'Itria, Alberobello, Egnazia, Caves of Castellana, Polignano a Mare and many others.

Surroundings...
The City of Ostuni is located in the Middle of the Puglia Region, in a strategic position suitable for visits to the nearby places
We suggest a thematic visit of the most significative places of this Region
● Our Origins:
Preclassic Murgia Museum in Ostuni where Upper Palaeolithic Tombs have been found.
● Magna Grecia:
visit to the National Museum in Taranto, the Doric Columns and the Metapontium Temples.
● Everlasting Beauties:
the "Valle d'Itria", the "Capital of the Trulli" Alberobello and the Martina Franca Baroque.
● Marvels of Nature:
Castellana Caves, Natural Reserves of Torre Guaceto in Brindisi Land and Cesine in Lecce land.
● Rocky Habitats:
visit to the Madonna della Scala Sanctuary in Massafra and the frescoes of the surrounding caves (Gravine), continuing to Matera's Rocks.
● Norman Swebian Period:
visit to the S.
Nicola Citadel of Bari, the Romanic Cathedral of Trani, the Castel del Monte Fortress.
● Spanish Period:
visit to the Palaces and the Baroque Churches of Lecce and Otranto destroyed by Turkish on 1480.
● Appia-Traiana Road:
visit to the Roman Port of Gnathia, the Anthiquarium and the remains of the Roman Brundisium.
● Civilization of the Country:
visit to the Characteristic "Masserie" in the Ostuni land.


Itineraries...
● Itinerary #1: Old Town of Ostuni
Guided Tour to find the origins of the White City.
This itinerary provides for a complete visit of the Historical Medieval Town of Ostuni called TERRA.
The tour starts from Piazza Libertà, the three-cornered and wide square, where there are the City Hall Palace, the Church of San Francesco, the Sant'Oronzo Column, the Church of the Holy Spirit.
The next step is the visit to the ancient walls to watch the stunning landscape on Viale Oronzo Quaranta.
The tour continues by entering the old medieval town through the San Demetrio Portal, walking on Via Bixio Continelli, a long street surrounded by arches and white walls.
Next step is a walk on Via Cattedrale until the face of the Church of San Vito Martire, now Museum of the Preclassic Civilizations, seat of a permanent exposition dedicated to the ancient farmers of the Mediterraneum.
Here there is the copy of a very important remain: a woman and her fetus tracing back to 25.000 years ago (Upper Palaeolhytic).
Next step is Piazza Cattedrale, offering an architectural and artistic scenary of an uncommon beauty: the Cathedral (National Monument), the Episcopio and the Library, the Stone Bridge.
Going down Vico Castello there is a great sight on the hills, the Olive trees and the sea.
Walking through the old town there is a feeling of a no time atmosphere.
The visit ends on Porta Nova, the ancient entering door.
By this itinerary visitora may taste typical foods (oil, wine, orecchiette, cheese, sweets, dry figs, tosted almonds, jams and so on) and they can buy handcraft items (wicker baskets, laces, olive wood items, whistles and pottery) from the many little stores of the old town streets.
Waiting for the night shows, it is possible to visit the Ostuni Hills and the Sanctuary of Sant'Oronzo: Ostuni celebrates its protector by the famous ride on August 26
● Itinerary #2: From the Olive Trees to the Sea
Naturalistic and Gastronomic Tour finding ancient and charming places.
The Olive tree represents the most diffused growing, above all in the flat zone called "La Marina" which gradually goes down to the sea, in a wide and characteristic secular Olive trees wood.
The half-day tour inside this Mediterraneum frame is made of different steps.
First Step: visit to the numerous masserie (the farmers'houses) with the medieval oil-mills, drawn into the rock, where it is possible to watch the ancient places where olives were turned to oil.
Second Step: walk through a path surrounded by olive trees riding the old farmer horse dragged carts.
Third Step: lunch in one of the Masserie tasting typical foods.
Fourth Step: visit to the Sea of Ostuni, the cliffs and the thin sand beaches.