M 26 - Historic farmhouse in Martina Franca

MARTINA FRANCA - Contrada Orimini We offer for sale an old farmhouse located within the "Terra delle Gravine Regional Park", in the territory of the famous "Cento Masserie di Crispiano", along the ancient road that connected Martina Franca to Taranto through the renowned Orimini forest. The property is surrounded by Mediterranean scrub, part of the natural heritage of the Valle d'Itria and evidence of a very rich vegetation: Lentiscus, myrtle, terebinth, filirea, cistus, juniper and Aleppo pine, orchids, broom. The site where it stands has been frequented since prehistoric times and, of course, since the first settlements of Magna Graecia, the structure bears witness to a singular Apulian rural building preceding the more famous Trulli and dating back to the 14th-15th centuries. These peculiar rectangular structures, with massive buildings and steeply pitched roofs, represent a singular phenomenon in the use of dry stone, with roofs covered in 'chiancarelle' and stone walls. The property includes a farmhouse with rural residential building and two large stables, a building used as an oven for a total of about 400 square metres. The courtyard is bordered by dry-stone walls with a large stone portal, plus an external jazzo. The property is completed by 21 hectares of land, including olive groves and pasture, and of course Mediterranean scrub. This farmhouse is ideal for creating a special tourist accommodation property of a high standard, preserving and enhancing the high historical, cultural, architectural and landscape value that characterises it.