Residenza del Duca

Casa
Italia
Martina Franca, Puglia
Residenza del Duca

Two hectares of private land. Luxury villa

Private estate with private pool and SPA surrounded by the nature of the Itria Valley – Martina Franca – Puglia – Italy
5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, large, gazebo, solarium, spa, large swimming pool.

20/09/2026

Extra virgin olive oil, first cold pressing, poured over warm bread. That's breakfast in Puglia, and it's one of the region's oldest exports — the olive groves that stitch the Valle d'Itria have fed this table for centuries.

At the villa, the outdoor kitchen in the 60 sqm gazebo seats 18. Bread on the table, a bottle of local oil, tomatoes still warm from the sun. You drizzle, you tear, you pass the plate. Nothing more complicated than that.

Good oil is grassy, a little bitter at the back of the throat, peppery on the way down. In Puglia it's not a garnish — it's the base note under nearly everything, from orecchiette to grilled bombette.

For a proper Apulian meal beyond the villa, and are worth the short drive.

Bookings via the link in bio.

📷 Photo: Caroliusa / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

20/09/2026

You reach for the tap after breakfast, the local stone cool against your fingers — one of five en-suite rooms, made ready.
Which morning ritual do you never skip on holiday?

Bookings via the link in bio.

18/09/2026

The wool of the sofa is coarse under your palm, warm where the sun has reached it through the panoramic window. Beyond the glass, pines and open country. Inside, white walls, deep cushions, and a black fireplace waiting for cooler evenings.

On the shelves, a few pieces of old copper and hand-shaped ceramics — the kind of details that come from the region, not a catalogue. This is the living room: 310 square metres of interior across two levels, designed with architect Stella Maris Gonzales, where the cooking peninsula opens onto the patio and the light does most of the work.

Sit low. Watch the countryside change colour as the day goes on. Nothing here asks anything of you.

Bookings via the link in bio.

17/09/2026

Bags packed, camera charged: this week the Valle d'Itria and the coast turn into open-air galleries and piazza stages. ✨

Between the Two Seas, art spills into courtyards, harbours and midnight streets. Here's what's on now:

1. FotoArte 2026 opens Sept 18 in Martina Franca's Palazzo Ducale — the international photography festival, 23rd edition, themed 'Topos'. Free admission (except the workshop), through Oct 4.

2. Sept 19–20: 'letture portfolio' — intimate sessions where authors and experts read and shape photographic projects.

3. Sept 18, 7:00 pm: 'Giocando sotto le Stelle' brings sport into Monopoli's piazza with demonstrations under the evening sky.

4. Sept 19, 8:30 pm: Monopoli's old town becomes an open-air stage for 'Venghino Signori Venghino – Street'.

5. All week: PhEST – See Beyond the Sea, 11th edition, theme 'What if?', on Monopoli's harbour — pair it with Polignano a Mare, just 10 minutes away.

6. Close the week in Taranto at MArTA, home to the world-famous 'Ori di Taranto' — Magna Graecia gold in glass and light.

Save this for your journey. 📌 Follow us for more Valle d'Itria — stays await in the link in bio.

16/09/2026

Do you know what a private day here actually holds?

Wake in one of five en-suite bedrooms, panoramic windows already full of light. Breakfast on the patio — nine hundred square metres of Trani stone underfoot, warm before the sun is fully up. The dogs cut across the garden while the coffee's still hot.

Then the day is yours to shape. The infinity pool. The spa: hydromassage, sauna, hammam, a quiet corner for herbal tea. The rooftop for the last of the sun, two hundred and ten square metres of sky. And the gazebo, its outdoor kitchen and a table for eighteen, waiting for dinner.

Five suites, up to twelve guests, one villa entirely private.

Follow for the most beautiful corners of Valle d'Itria.

🎵 Music: "Minimal Abstraction" by Sevennotes (Jamendo, CC)

15/09/2026

Just outside Martina Franca, the pastures roll toward the old woods, and the herds still graze here as they have for generations. This is podolica country — the hardy cattle that gave Puglia its prized cheeses, raised on wild grass rather than closed sheds. It's this same working countryside, half farmland and half ancient forest, that makes the Valle d'Itria what it is: unspoiled, protected, alive at dusk.

We're only ten minutes from town, yet the view is all cows and sunset. Nothing staged. Just the valley doing what it's always done.

Follow for the most beautiful corners of Valle d'Itria.

🎵 Music: "Cherry (Instrumental Version)" by Josh Woodward (Instrumental Versions) (Jamendo, CC)

12/09/2026

July and August, the valley fills with music. Opera under the stars at the Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca, ten minutes from the gate. Locus Festival and Cinzella Festival within easy reach for the nights that run long.

You don't have to choose between them. The villa sits in the middle of it all — Martina Franca 5 km away, both coasts under 40 minutes, five en-suite bedrooms waiting when the encore ends.

And whoever stays behind has good company: our German shepherd, stretched out on the warm Trani stone, keeping one ear on the driveway. He'll be here when you get back.

Come home to the quiet after the applause.

Follow for the most beautiful corners of Valle d'Itria.

🎵 Music: "Distorted reality" by zero-project (Jamendo, CC)

11/09/2026

Late afternoon, and someone drags the brown leather chair a few degrees to catch the last of the light through the panoramic window.

The fire isn't lit yet — that comes later. For now it's the reclaimed-wood table, the low cushioned benches running along two walls, a book set face-down, the quiet company of a house that asks nothing of you.

This is the great living space at the heart of the villa: 310 square metres over two levels, lounge flowing into the kitchen peninsula, the patio just beyond the glass. Traditional materials, unhurried finishes — a room designed with architect Stella Maris Gonzales to hold both a party of twelve and a single unhurried hour.

Move the chair. Turn toward the window. The valley does the rest.

Bookings via the link in bio.

10/09/2026

Save this before your next passeggiata: the strange, true stories hiding in plain sight across the Valle d'Itria, the white towns and the Two Seas — the tales your aperitivo will never tell you.

1. Martina Franca — named for St. Martin, its patron; the 'Franca' recalls medieval tax exemptions granted to lure settlers, a fiscal privilege baked into the town's very name.

2. Ostuni, 'La Città Bianca' — the whitewash wasn't only beautiful: lime was cheap, brightened dark alleys, and its antibacterial power once helped shield the city from plague.

3. Taranto's MArTA guards the 'Ori di Taranto', a world-famous collection of ancient Greek gold — echoes of Taras, the only Spartan colony ever founded overseas.

4. The Two Seas once spun 'bisso' (sea silk) from mussel filaments and yielded a murex purple dye worth more than its weight in gold.

5. Those white symbols on trulli roofs — stars, crosses, zodiac and pagan signs — were protective marks, a whisper of folk magic over the Valle d'Itria's cones.

6. Polignano a Mare, birthplace of Domenico Modugno — a seafront statue lifts its arms toward the same blue that inspired 'Volare'.

7. Cisternino and its 'fornello pronto' — choose your bombette at the butcher's counter and eat them grilled on the spot, a living tradition of the white towns.

Save this for your journey — and follow us for more Valle d'Itria. Stays await in the link in bio.

10/09/2026

A ring of dough drops into water, floats back up, then goes into the oven until it snaps like a knuckle when you break it.

That crack is the whole point of taralli.

Flour, white w**e, olive oil, a pinch of fennel seed — nothing more. The Apulian pantry rarely needs much. Boiled first, then baked, so the crumb turns dense and the shell shatters clean.

Here they belong to the in-between hours. A handful on the patio table before dinner. Something to keep the fingers busy while the w**e breathes and the light drops behind the park.

You can buy them by the bagful in every town around the valley. But there's a particular pleasure in the ones still warm, eaten slowly, going nowhere.

Follow for the flavours and quiet corners of Valle d'Itria.

📷 Photos: DinaBenedettoFerrandina / Wikimedia Commons (CC)
🎵 Music: "Red Moonlight ( Extended Mix )" by Pokki DJ (Jamendo, CC)

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