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Sultry southern CHARM
Woman & Home UK
|July 2024
Stretched along Italy's heel, Puglia offers a slice of the Italian good life, with peaceful hotels, indulgent meals and low-key glamour, says Lucy Thackray
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The first forkful is almost too divine. Thumbprint-sized nuggets of pasta drenched in a thick, terracotta sauce of sweet pumpkin, black pepper and mascarpone. Glistening jewels of pancetta sprinkled on top ooze their juices into the sauce, adding a naughty, salty note. I make a swooning face and hold my fork out to my partner, Giles. 'You are not going to feed me,' he laughs.
But this scene - a tiled terrace with simple tables and cushioned chairs, couples sloshing wines from ruby carafes, vines dangling from the pergola overhead, sun rippling off the pool -feels like it demands such a rom-com move. Along with the local pasta, orecchiette, and each other's company, we're gently sozzled on inky-dark, clove-spiced Negroamaro wine; the delicious, 3pm kind of tipsy where you're probably destined for a post-lunch snooze by the pool.
We're at Masseria Salinola (masseriasalinola.it), a farmhouse turned-boutique hotel in Puglia, Italy's sultry southern region that covers the heel of its 'boot'. Masserie are usually cream or whitewashed stone, and range from rather rustic to glam-rusted scythes and hefty grindstones often sit among tranquil gardens of prickly pear, citrus trees and grapevines, with nothing but olive groves or rugged coastal scenery for miles around.
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