Il Borgo

Rooms description

There are four double, en-suite bedrooms: one on the lower floor and three on the upper floor which is accessed by two flights of external stairs. The bedrooms celebrate the building’s beautiful architectural features, such as vaulted ceilings and carefully restored patterned floor tiles and wall frescoes. Decorated in soft, muted colours, the focus is on comfortable beds, a careful edit of furniture such as a chair or a mirror, celebrating the enormous ceiling height and the sense of space and serenity. One of the bedrooms has a single daybed as well.

There are five bathrooms in total: four of them en-suite, a fifth one on the lower floor along with a guest loo, and an outdoor shower by the pool. Making the most of the quirkiness of the space, the showers are in niches or by a window and are simple in decoration with high-performance fixtures and fittings and beautiful stone basins.

The kitchen is on the lower floor at one end of an open-plan room that includes a dining table and a spacious living area with doors to the outside. Lit by two pendant lamps that hang from the high vaulted ceiling over the stone island, it is expertly equipped with everything guests need. Its unfussy minimalism is softened by the use of beautiful natural materials and it offers plenty of space for everyone.

The living areas on the lower floor have lots of different places to sit and relax on furniture that is both comfy and aesthetically pleasing. The Scandi interior design fits perfectly with the building’s grand proportions and guests have several outdoor spaces they can sneak off to, to chat or read in blissful solitude.

There is a spare shower room, a guest loo and a laundry room, all on the lower floor.

Leisure & Activities

We would be delighted to help you plan the details of your stay at Il Borgo in advance. The following are available on request: private chef, daily cleaning, driver, bike and boat rental, massage therapist, yoga instructor and tourist guide.

Surroundings

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The house is on a quiet street in a village where there are cafes and several restaurants. The Adriatic, with its stunning mix of clear water, rocky coves and sandy beaches, is just ten minutes away while the Ionian coast is only 40 minutes in the other direction. Head to Castro (16km) from where you can take a boat to the Grotto Zinzulusa – a cave full of colourful stalactites and stalagmites. Many of the towns of the Salento region offer a rich history that can be explored through their byzantine and baroque architecture that includes palaces, chapels and churches. Lecce, otherwise known as the Florence of the South, is a must. Cited as one of the most beautiful cities in southern Italy, it is heralded for its baroque splendour and the incredible light as the sun bounces of the white stone.

Otranto (6km); Castro (15km); Galatina (30km); Lecce (40km); Santa Maria di Leuca (43km); Nardò (53km); Galatone (54km); Gallipoli (67km); Porto Selvaggio (67km); Punta Prosciutto (77km); Brindisi (88km); and Bari (200km).

Your villa and Covid-19

To prevent any possible spread of Covid-19 and to enable you to enjoy a safe and relaxing holiday, all our villas are cleaned to the highest standard possible, and according to the latest Italian health and safety regulations.

Perfect hygiene: to ensure an exceptional level of hygiene in all our villas, we’ve worked with our owners to create a Covid-19 villa management protocol. Based on recommendations from the World Health Organisation, and in compliance with current Italian national law, this protocol goes above and beyond our usual rigorous cleaning standards.

Prior to arrival, your villa will have been fully sanitised, including all surfaces, objects, kitchen items, curtains, sofas, throws, pillows, toys, and in and around the pool. You are welcome to ask for a detailed list of the entire cleaning procedure we do after each departure and before welcoming new guests to the property.

The owner of this house has complied with the following standards:

• To ensure the necessary information concerning social distancing and the use of masks is available to all guests
• To guarantee availability of and accessibility to hand hygiene systems with hydro-alcoholic solutions and soaps in all inside areas of, and pertaining to, the villa
• To guarantee cleaning and disinfection of all areas according to national authority guidelines. Further information is available on request
• For the swimming pool: to guarantee the efficacy of the water treatments, while respecting legal limits (the parameter for free active chlorine in the pool is between 1.0 – 1.5 mg/l; combined chlorine ≤ 0.40 mg/l; pH 6.5 – 7.5 or equivalent oxygen)
• For air conditioning systems: to guarantee the air re-circulation function is switched off and, according to the manufacturer’s instructions, with the plant in off-mode, to clean the air filters of the heating/cooling plants that use heat pumps, fan coils and convectors, at the end of each stay

For more general information about Covid-19 in Italy, please click here.