Dear Homeaway
We stayed at Masseria Casalicchio 9 days from May 25 to June 3, 2019. Our group was made of 10 people. The purpose of the vacation was to have a family reunion on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of our marriage and the 75th birthday of my wife. We are living in Milan, and the rest of the group was made up by my older son Andrea coming from the USA with his partner, my second son coming from Richmond UK with his wife and with my grandson and grand daughter , my daughter Nicoletta living in Milano and my brother in law coming from Roma.
Despite the different geographical living of the members of the group, everybody was enthusiastic of the Masseria’s comfortable and very refined elegance, its high quality centenary walls and furniture anywere, the great beds, the modern kitchen, the swimming pool, the barbecue, the splendid table in the patio, with a wide shadowed corner, the beach beds, the ping-pong .
The above was embedded among centenary olive trees, the cherry trees, and the 2 trullis nearby. And was even available a cleaning lady…!
We were also assisted with thoughtful and great professionality by the caretaker of the mansion, Darren. Also the Masseria location was outstanding. Nearby we had the Castellana caves, within 30-40 km we had places like Alberobello, Polignano a mare, and many others. A bit further is Matera ( elected the capital culture of Europe in 2019), and many others.
We explored many of the restaurants and "trattorie" around, but the surprise was a 16+"Pugliese" specialties dinner in a sort of "endless " degustation prepared by Donatella and served in the Masseria.
All of us left at the end with a lot of nostalgia for the place. We will certainly go back in the future.
And we extend our deeper compliments to the owner, who was willing to invest and preserve such a beauty in what I should call from now on the Italian “Pugliashire”.
Kind regards
Massimo