Your Dream Italian Holiday, Designed Just for You

A relaxing, hands-on culinary holiday with wine tasting and a rustic hotel, a real Italian short-break for all occasions.

Puglia, a popular region for charming Trulli houses, fine Baroque architecture & beautiful coastline, is now making itsí mark on gastronomy holidays with a recent introduction of small boutique farmhouses and family run wine cellars offering unique opportunities to taste real flavours of the region with simple but tasty recipes that have been passed from one generation to the next!

With this holiday, we will be offering you the chance to learn about rustic Italian cooking in a typical farmhouse from a local cook, enjoy the flavours of your cooking accompanied with tasty local wine, a small walking tour in Conversano, a medieval town where your hotel is located, and a horse and carriage countryside tour along with your delicious four course tasting menu welcome dinner at your hotel.

Surrounded by 50,000 olive trees, with a wonderful pool & not far from the coast.  

The excellent restaurant means great choices for food-lovers! Masseria Bosco has huge character and personality, massive popularity with clients, and amazing abundant cuisine. It is just fabulous,that's a fact!    

This Masseria is in one of the lesser-known parts of Puglia, in a rural setting, surrounded by 50,000 olive trees, and with a wonderful swimming  pool. 2km from Avetrana and more or less equidistant (43km) from Brindisi, Lecce and Taranto, it is perfect for exploring some of Salento's "hidden" Puglia, as well as its important historic cities. The beautiful Ionian Sea, with its sandy beaches, is also only about 8 km away.    

A great choice for food-lovers, the cuisine, based on local and Pugliese  recipes, is superb, plentiful and flavoursome. Very well-known locally, the Masseria has a well-deserved reputation for the fantastic seasonal food it serves, which is often quite unusual and always with the focus very much on 'slow food'. Still a working farm, with 100 hectares of olive trees, lemon and orange groves, an uncle cultivates mostly organic vegetables, which end up on the table, in the restaurant.

Set off to explore the shores of Italy, where each region reveals a character shaped by history and the sea. Stretching from Emilia-Romagna, rich in Roman and Byzantine splendour, to the Adriatic coast, is a unique heritage bearing witness to centuries of history. Puglia captivates with its medieval villages and light-drenched shores, while in Sicily, Mount Etna watches over ancient cities and dramatic landscapes where Greek and Roman influences intertwine. Tuscany blends Renaissance elegance and the Mediterranean lifestyle, with fortified towns and coastal cities. Further north, Liguria charms with its colourful ports nestling in coves, while the Amalfi Coast reveals panoramas seemingly suspended between sky and sea.

This hand-picked itinerary allows you to visit two contrasting parts of Sicily, for a richly diverse experience. Masseria Della Volpe is in the countryside of Noto. It is a boutique hotel with agritourism character. Located in the heart of the Val di Noto, between the Hyblaean Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea, Masseria Della Volpe is an expression of timeless charm.

The Ashbee Hotel is a romantic, luxury hotel in Taormina, and is the idyllic destination for a honeymoon. Located in a peaceful 20th-century villa, and complete with stunning architecture, the Ashbee is the perfect place to completely relax.