A 16th-century farmhouse now converted into an intimate nine-bedroom hotel, Lecce’s Masseria Trapanà specialises in simple pleasures. “Ordinarily when on holiday the last place I want to find myself is by a stove. So it came as a surprise to find myself longing to be in the kitchen at Masseria Trapanà, a fortified Italian farmhouse of honey-coloured stone dating back to the 16th century that is poised to open as a hotel…”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/travel/82443/masseria-trapana-puglias-honey-hued-retreat.html

Claire Wrathall