Ostuni holiday villa rental with private pool, walking, log fire, disabled access, balcony/terrace, air con, rural retreat, TV, DVD

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Villa Rustica (villa)

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Villa Rustica was built in the 80s around a 17th century Lamia. The villa is ideal for groups or large families with children, as it benefits from two separate air-conditioned apartments, each with private entrance and a fenced swimming pool.

Villa Rustica	soggiorno apartment 1
fireplace apartment 1	the fenced swimming pool

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The Puglia/Molise region

Protected by its previous lack of international airports, Puglia is still what we all think of when we think of Italy: great food, ancient architecture and a welcoming people whose attitude to life is a holiday in itself.

Puglia is about enjoying yourself: going out to dinner is cheap and children are welcome everywhere. And there is always something to do and a town to visit. Indeed, Lecce has been described as the loveliest baroque city in the Mediterranean.

Geography
Puglia is situated in the heel of Italy. Its outside heel runs along the Adriatic and its instep runs along the Ionian. Its major towns are Brindisi, Bari, Lecce, Gallipoli and Otranto.

Lying on a water basin, Puglia is extremely fertile and was heavily settled by the ancient Greeks who planted its famous olive groves and vines. Hence, the Romans called it Magna Graecia.

The landscape, with its thousands of olive trees intermingled with huge prickly pear cacti and honey-coloured dry stone walls, is most unusual and more reminiscent of parts of Greece than Italy.

Ostuni area

You can happily spend a relaxed week exploring Ostuni on foot, enjoying its strange mix of architectural styles and sampling the delights of its many cafés, bars and restaurants.

Closer to Ostuni are some delightful small hill towns (Ceglie Messapica, Carovigno) with beautiful old buildings in their centres – do not be put off by the ugly high-rise structures around their perimeters. If you persist you will find fantastic treasures beyond these cement monstrosities: park in the modern areas and walk to the centro storico where the streets are often very narrow and difficult to negotiate with a car.

If you want the ultimate hands-on safari experience, a visit to Zoosafari, in Fasano, is the must-do family outing. Remember to bring nuts for the monkey train and breadsticks for the camels and giraffes. This is Italy and the animals are there for feeding.

Perhaps most interesting is Alberobello, famous for its thousands of trulli – the world famous circular stone houses with cone-shaped roofs made of dry stones (without cement!). These fascinating buildings are dotted all over the countryside round Ostuni and look like hobbit houses. There is even a trullo church.

Not far from Alberobello are the Grotte di Castellana, the amazing underground caves and passages full of magical stalagmites and stalagtites. Don’t be put off by the touristy shops and long queues in summer months – the caves are spectacular and worth a wait.

Also worth a visit is Cisternino, with its delightful centro storico, and Locorotondo, built in a circular formation, hence its name, where streets spiral up to a magnificent church which can be seen for miles around. In the modern area, the local cantina sociale, a vast wine factory, sells the very good local wine. Best is the white wine, which costs about 8 euros for 5 litres.

In July and August all these small towns have their own festivals, when thousands of people descend on them to see the decorated streets and sample the local food until the early hours of the morning. Martina Franca, another town not far from Ostuni, holds an international arts festival every year in late July/early August – if you want tickets you need to go online to www.euro-festival.net and look for the Festival della Valle d’Itria. You would need to book some months ahead: they stage little known operas which get booked up early.

How to get there

Cheapest flights from London are with Ryanair from Stansted to Brindisi (approx 20 mins drive) or
Bari (approx 60 mins drive). British Airways and Alitalia also fly to Bari.
If flying with Ryanair discounted car hire is available through Hertz. Otherwise Europcar, National, Maggiore, Sixt and Targarent also have rental outlets at the airports, From Airports 379 motorway to Ostuni.
Trains from Milan and Rome stop in Ostuni daily.

Activities near Ostuni

Facilities

Further details indoors:
Although it is a single unit, Villa Rustica is styled in order to have 2 separate apartments each with kitchen,bedroom and bathroom.
Apartment 1 has a large kitchen/dining area with fireplace,double bedroom sofa bed and bathroom.
Apartment 2 has a double bedroom on the top floor with balcony overlooking the countryside, bathroom kitchen dining area and a soggiorno with fireplace and sofabed.
Both apartments are air-conditioned.
Villa Rustica is ideal for a very basic and relaxing holiday.

Further details outdoors:
Villa Rustica enjoys a very attractive position in the Ostuni countryside, surrounded by olive groves which are more than a century old.
In front of Apartment 1 you will find a stone BBQ and pergola for fresco dining, large terracing for parking all around the Villa and a 30 meters walk to the fenced swimming pool excavated in the rock.

Further details

Meet and greet and welcome pack provided on arrival by english speaking representative.
Villa Rustica will only be let to one single group to avoid sharing facilities with unknown people.

Conditions

To book please allow 30% of the amount to secure booking then full payment 6 weeks prior arrival together with
€ 300 breakages fee to be refunded on departure.

Rental rates

Period	From	To	Weekly	Nightly rate		Minimum  stay
				Weekday	Weekend
Low Season	4 Apr 09	6 Jun 09	560£ 560	0-	0-	1 Week
Mid Season	6 Jun 09	18 Jul 09	700£ 700	0-	0-	1 Week
High Season	18 Jul 09	29 Aug 09	910£ 910	0-	0-	1 Week
Mid Season	29 Aug 09	26 Sep 09	700£ 700	0-	0-	1 Week
Low Season	26 Sep 09	31 Oct 09	560£ 560	0-	0-	1 Week

NB: Prices may be subject to change at the advertiser's discretion.

Availability

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