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Via Gagliano, Gagliano del Capo, Tricase, Salento - Apulia

D'AMICO IMMOBILIARE offers for sale a Masseria dating back to 1800, 3 kilometers from Santa Maria di Leuca. The property for sale has a covered area of 535 square meters, a good part of which is on the ground floor. It has an internal courtyard garden, of about 1.000 square meters, typical of the time, and a land of relevance all around, of 8.141 square meters.

There is the possibility of buying additional adjacent land to the same property for about another hectare. The main part of the farm is in perfect conditions. Some stables, on the other hand, located in the courtyard garden, are semi-ruined. The property retains all the charm of the past, with a particularity. It is, that is, a cistern, located in the center of the courtyard garden, from which women once drew the water that flowed from the winter rains. On the side, there are two batteries, which were used to wash clothes.

The Masseria i for sale from 1800 is located in Gagliano del Capo 

The town of Gagliano del Capo is 61 km from Lecce and 113 from Salento Airport, in Brindisi.

On the ridge of the Serra dei Cianci, overlooking the Adriatic Sea of Puglia, stands Gagliano del Capo. A small and charming village of about 6000 inhabitants a few kilometers from Santa Maria di Leuca. The first human settlements date back to the Bronze Age, as evidenced by the presence of at least two menhirs on the territory. Subsequently, the town developed particularly in the Early Middle Ages welcoming refugees from the destruction of the nearby hamlets of Pulsano and Misciano.

The municipality of Gagliano del Capo also includes two hamlets: Arigliano and San Dana.

Since October 2006, part of its territory is part of the Park Costa Otranto - Santa Maria di Leuca and Bosco di Tricase, established by the Region of Puglia in order to safeguard the east coast of Salento, rich in valuable architectural assets and important animal and vegetable species.

Of note is the beautiful stretch of coast falling in the municipal territory of Gagliano del Capo, in particular the town Ciolo famous for the nightclub Gibò.

To visit in Gagliano del capo There is also the Palazzo Ciardo, the birthplace of the famous Salento painter Vincenzo Ciardo. Of great interest is the old town, which winds through narrow streets and paved with "chianche" characteristics. In the old town there are other buildings, almost hidden among other houses. In the outskirts you can visit the Convent of San Francesco di Paola, built in the seventeenth century.

The Masserie Salentine were born between the sixteenth century and the eighteenth century, the result of the baronial colonization of large abandoned and uncultivated inland areas. At that time, Spain, in order to supply itself with cereals, granted the permission of repopulation to the nobles of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, who even went so far as to found real villages in the vicinity of the original building. Starting from the nineties of the twentieth century, the recovery of some of these historic farms that are renovated to be used as farmhouses and bed & breakfast.