Giorgio's tips

Here you will find some tips from a friend to other friends. It has nothing to do with business. I know what I'm talking about, because I've experienced it myself and think it good enough to be passed on to others.

GIORGIO

Mastro Rocco

All the good travellers must take good care of their feet and shoes. The shoes are the perfect, economical and unsurpassed means to explore the world roads. Mastro Rocco is the magician that looks after them when time or accidents make the intervention of a specialist necessary.
Our friend Rocco is the cobbler of Candela. His address is:

Rocco Rossi, Corso P. Piemonte 3, Candela

Have a look at the page with the good products of our land.

Our land is an inexhaustible mine of pleasant and beautiful gastronomic surprises. Starting with the bread, the salami, black truffles and olive oil, not to mention the vegetables.
In Candela, ten minutes away from the Masseria, there are some small "trattorie" / restaurants where you can taste all the products to be found in our region.

A good retreat we suggest to our friends visiting Trani.
This ancient tiny place, on the port, is warm and welcoming, rich in pictures, nautical maps and souvenirs collected by Paolo, who spent his life at sea. A few years ago Paolo decided to cast anchor here at Trani and so, today, he delights us with genuine and tasty sea specialties, all freshly made by his wife upstairs, in the family kitchen.

Caffé Nautico, Via Statuti Marittimi 18, Trani (on the port).
Paolo's cell: 340 2589074

You don't feel like driving further?

Once you've arrived at Canestrello we'll take care to pamper you: just park your car and go have a look around the Masseria in the modern and comfortable mini-buses available, all air-conditioned and with chauffeur.

You want a car-less holiday?

Just let us know ahead and we'll come pick you up and drive you back directly from whichever location, city, airport, train station. All you need to do is ask!
And if you are a small group the cost will be even less, certainly lower than any car-hire.

Flour, water, tradition. These are the good ingredients of the best cuisine of Candela.
The environment is simple and welcoming, and Ercole, host and chef is always ready to speak about the gastronomic traditions of our land. We are in Candela, only ten minutes by car from Canestrello.

Two unusual guides by Laterza Publishers

-The Romanesque Cathedrals in Puglia by Vincenzo Velati and
-The tracks to the painted caves by Nino Lavermicocca.

They are two books which, even if not exactly tourist guides, offer some of the best and most interesting itineraries to the most demanding of travellers.

The first volume documents the building of the romanesque cathedrals in our region, the historical context which favoured the edification of these buildings during an extraordinary historical time, and explains in a simple way the architectural differences and supplies a useful glossary.
The second book is a discovery of the rich mountainous habitat, the painted caves spread in all the territory of Puglia from Gargano to Salento.
A vast and delicate open-air picture gallery, with its stories of rural communites that inhabited these caves, the strong links with the Orient. The Angels, The Madonnas and the Saints, painted on the humid walls of these churches hewn in the rock, reveal the Byzantine heritage, the imperial presence of Constantinople.

Puglia - Land of wheat and olives

If you wish to discover our region, then your tiny Grand Tour must head south, towards Ostuni, in the province of Brindisi. Leaving behind our fields of wheat, the open spaces, the forests you will head towards the colours and the architecture of the olive growing Puglia.

Secular olive tree and red soil in the countryside of Ostuni

The cultivation of the olive tree is characteristic of Puglia, and where the land becomes red and stony, enclosed within kilometres of dry stone rubble walls, you will discover some of the most beautiful and old species of this tree, a sacred plant to the Gods.
We suggest you share your tour in Puglia between our B&B and the Agro-Touristic hotel Il Frantoio - The Oil Mill, run by Armando and Rosalba Balestrazzi. They are very dear friends of ours who, on their white farmhouse in Ostuni will surprise you with their fantastic hospitality.
Moreover the cuisine of the hostess is certainly worth a trip to their place.

Courtyard of Masseria, the oil-mill of Ostuni.

In this countryside, even in winter, nature is an explosion of a thousand colours, the houses are a glaring white, the sea pure and clean from the incoming winds of the Otranto Channel.

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