The guided tour in the countryside of Ostuni will take you to discover one of the most beautiful masserie of Puglia with a valley of ancient olive trees, the beautiful hypogean oil mill ending with a tasting of extra virgin olive oil and local products
Highlights:
Discover a hypogean oil mill surrounded by ancient olive trees
Visit the ancient Masseria farm
Taste the extra virgin olive oil and typical Apulian products
Tour details:
Guided tour of an old typical Masseria farm in the heart of Puglia surrounded by monumental millennial olive trees where organic extra virgin olive oil of superior quality is produced. The guided tour begins in the monumental olive grove to discover the olive trees with fascinating sculptural forms.
The Masseria farm is one of the oldest and most original of Puglia that preserves intact the testimonies left by the populations that have succeeded, from the messapians tribe up to today.
The tour continues in the hypogeum oil mill with stone mill, cisterns, fireplace, stable and olive grove.
Continue by visiting:
– first hypogeum nucleus, dating back to the XIII / XIV century which includes not only the house, the hayloft and the olive deposits, but also a very rare small stable that has remained intact;
– home of the farmers dating back to the sixteenth and seventeenth century;
– core of the mid-eighteenth century with a church with a Rococo style stone altar, with accommodation for shepherds, sheep-fold, stables and oven;
– “modern” crusher dating back to 1880, with an annexed inferno, a cistern, housing for the workers currently destined for the Company Museum of Rural Civilization and Frantoiana;
– garage built in 1940 for the recovery and repair of the Fiat Balilla car and the first tractors.
The visit ends with tasting of various types of extra virgin olive oil and typical local products.
Meeting point with the local guide:
- To be agreed
Included:
- Guided tour of the Masseria, millennial olive trees and hypogeum oil mill
- Tasting of extra virgin olive oil and typical local products
Not included:
- Lunch / Dinner
- Transportation/Pick up-Drop off
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