For Sale In Ortelle, Palace Of 1760 In The Historic Center

Description

Piazza San Giorgio, Ortelle, Salento - Puglia 

D'Amico Immobiliare offers for sale an Ancient Palace dating back to 1760, located in the main square of the historic center of Ortelle. It belonged to a well-known noble family. Arranged on two floors, it has a total covered area of 1000 square meters, between ground floor and first floor, as well as cellars dug into the tuff, where even today there are all the equipment for squeezing and processing of grapes. The area of the Torchio and Lu Parmentu has a covered surface of 120 square meters.

The Palace is accessed from the entrance to the square, and from a secondary on the side street. Both converge in a central atrium partly covered and immediately discovered On the ground floor, the Ancient Palace is composed of various frescoed rooms and mosaics of the time. In addition, there are also kitchens and servants' rooms. From the atrium, a staircase starts for the first floor that serves the servants' rooms, once used for supplies and the preparation of meals of the nobles. On the first floor there are several rooms, many of which are frescoed and with floors in original mosaics of the time. The whole structure is in perfect condition. Even the interior fixtures and someone outside.

Contact us and we will realize for you, turnkey, renovation and completion works according to your wishes... All this with D'AMICO IMMOBILIARE !

Ancient Palace for sale is located in Ortelle 

Ortelle is about 40 kilometers from Lecce and 93 from the Airport of Salento (Brindisi).

Ortelle is a small town in the lower Salento and is part of the Union of Municipalities of the East Coast along with the municipalities of Castro Marina, Santa Cesarea Terme and Minervino di Lecce.

Ortelle and the hamlet Vignacastrisi, has an area that extends around the ancient Messapian city of Vaste and the Adriatic coast of Salento. The architecture that characterizes Ortelle is typical of the rural villages of Salento, positioned around the main Church, and is served by a road network that represents the natural continuation of ancient rural streets pre-existing.

To visit in Ortelle: the ancient crypt "Madonna della Grotta" testimony of the extensive process of Byzantization that affected southern Italy between the seventh and eleventh centuries; the Chapel of Saints Vito and Marina erected in 1776 on an ancient rock church. A Vignacastrisi instead is of great interest: the Church - fortress of the sixteenth century, in Romanesque style; Behind it, a beautiful natural site, called "Canals or Lame"  part of the area Park Otranto-Santa Maria di Leuca.

Among the various events to remember: the famous Fair of San Vito that uses the qualification of regional exhibition on the fourth Sunday of October. In the festival of Santo Vito many people visit Ortelle to live the ancestral ritual of the consumption of pork produced by local farmers.