The Best Hotels in Puglia to Book for an Idyllic Italian Escape | Vogue

"Just 15 minutes from Lecce, this leafy, white-stoned farm complex felt like a private villa: the expansive courtyard and vaulted lobby set a deceptively simple, supremely elegant tone—think wrought-iron four-poster beds, soothing neutrals, and contemporary local craftsmanship. Opened in 2015 by Australian Rob Potter-Sanders and limited to nine suites, it has the intimacy of a holiday home, an Edenic pool beneath olive trees, a grotto-like underground spa carved from historic storage rooms, and idyllic lunches of perfectly cooked seafood spaghetti with a crisp Salento white under lemon trees." - Liam Hess