The Masseria - The Oil Mill

Located on the highest part of the vast hill, in a large estate in San Leonardo, the Masseria will be happy to offer you the ideal vacation home, surrounded by unspoiled nature, between sea and mountains, just minutes from the historic center. The space The Il Frantoio villa was obtained from a former oil mill of the late 1600s with a barrel vault where you can still admire the remains in the floor behind a walkable glass of the ancient cisterns to contain the oil. It is spread over two floors: crossing the large and exclusive garden, we arrive at the first porch equipped with a small table and a small living room where you can eat outside in peace. Entering the ground floor, we find a magnificent living room with a double sofa bed, an equipped kitchen, a bathroom and a second external porch with a garden. Going up to the second floor, we find two double bedrooms, one with a private bathroom, both with magnificent balconies equipped with sun loungers, parasols and sunbeds. The holiday homes of La Masseria are perfect for both groups of friends and families with children: the large, green and protected outdoor spaces will make the place an ideal cradle between freedom and lightheartedness. Guest access Each guest will have their own personal villa and private courtyard-garden. The close proximity to the famous 'Aqualand Del Vasto' will make you lose yourself in the slides and pools, allowing you to enjoy days of celebration and excursions, just a stone's throw away! It is considered the largest water park in Central-Southern Italy. Other things to note YESTERDAY AND TODAY Formerly owned by the Counts Ricci, it was a majestic country manor house, developed around an original nucleus dating back to the 17th century, which, through successive enlargements, was gradually modified until it assumed in the second half of the 19th century what we can appreciate today: a magnificent example of rural architecture miraculously preserved to the present day. These residences, suitable for delegated agricultural management, give way, with the temporary presence of the owner in situ, to an increasingly punctual and extensive operation of direct supervision of the countryside, of agricultural land enhancement and rationalization of the ever-increasing productive resources deriving from the intensive-seasonal alternation of cereal crops and annual-cycle tree crops. The same applies to the land that is the subject of our study: together with the agricultural production of vast areas that until then had been used for cattle grazing, with the consequent encroachment of the livestock into the stables, the wealthy Counts Ricci expanded the primitive seventeenth-century farmhouse with the annexed dwellings of the peasant families, new stables, storehouses and drying rooms and legume stores in the straw attics, ovens and a well, which were joined to what is now the summer domus gentilizia on the first floor. Registration Details IT069099C2WZ37GPWN