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Landscape: Gargano e Salento
Region: Puglia
Bed and Breakfast:  Rooms
5 accommodations with 1 up to 3 beds.
Can guest up to 13 persons.
Minimum stay: 1 day

Description

This bed and breakfast is the ideal place where to spend a nice holiday in a comfortable villa, located in Casamassella, a small village 2 Km far from Otranto, the jewel of Eastern Salento in Puglia.
You can choose among 5 rooms, with two, three or four beds, all with private bathroom with shower, TV, air conditioning and heating.
Guests will take their breakfast in the large hall or in the wide garden. A luscious variety of foods will be a surprise every morning... On demand you can also get a typical dinner of traditional dishes!  
Andrea and Melissa, always at yours disposal, will tell you all the secrets useful to discover and appreciate the strangest and most peculiar places in the Salento area!!!
A travel across the myths, the delicacies and the wild beauties of the region is waiting for you!

Surroundings

Also in Casamassella, as in all Salento area, tourism is increasing, but a discreet, high quality tourism, of people able to appreciate the beautiful nature of the Coast, and the cultural treasures of Otranto and of its inland. The first documents about Casamassella Castle and about the village that developed around it date back to the Middle Age, when, in the reign of Carlo d'Angiò, the Castel, surrounded with a ditch with the drawbridge, was the fortified residence of Ruggero Maramonte, the local feudatory. We don't know if the building existed before, in any case it is ascertained that human settlements in the area date back to very ancient times. Thanks to its special position, in the immediate vicinity of Otranto, but sheltered from the frequent raids of Barbaresque pirates, from Turky and Algeria, the Casamassella Castle was a safe and prestigious residence, longed for by some of the most aristocratic families of Terra d'Otranto, that in the course of the centuries took possession of it.
In the outskirts: Otranto, with its Cathedral accomplished in 1088 (it is the greatest of all the Apulian churches), Gallipoli town, the prehistoric settlements in Rivabella and S. Pietro de' Samari, and Lecce, the Baroque town, also known as the Florence of Southern Italy.
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Raggiungibilità con mezzi pubblici:
The nearest train station is in Giurdignano (2 km).
Lecce is the terminal of the national railways network.
You can get one of the trains going to Lecce or get off in Bari, there choosing one of the many Lecce connections. In Lecce you can use the South East Ralways (FSE), which connect the main spots in the Salento region. Otranto is about 35 KM from Lecce. To get infos about timetables call: 0836/801482 (it is the phone number of Otranto railstation).
Here are some of the towns which you will see along your travel towards Otranto: Lecce, Maglie,  Bagnolo del Salento, Cannole, Giurdignano, Otranto.
Otherwise you can use the bus services. All of them have their terminal in Otranto. Three are the companies. Marozzi runs a line from Rome to Otranto and from Pisa to Otranto. Marino runs a line from Milan and Turin to Otranto. Scoppio service connects Otranto with Sicily (Palermo and Catania).

 

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