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.