Palazzo Edmondo

Rooms description

There are three double en-suite bedrooms, all with comfortable, king-size beds made up with cool linens. All the rooms have incredible star-vaulted ceilings that reach up to five metres high.
Suite 1
This 27sqm bedroom on the ground floor has a beautifully restored cementine floor, a separate loo with wash basin and a private courtyard with a haman style shower room at the end of the courtyard.
Suite 2
This 45sqm bedroom on the first floor has a reading area, as well as a shower room and a private terrace with sweeping views.
Suite 3
This 27sqm bedroom on the second floor has a cocciopesto floor: earthenware mixed with sand and lime which was the Roman equivalent of concrete. The bathroom has a built-in bath and there is a private terrace.

The en-suite bathrooms are individual to each room, and all come with high-quality fixtures and fittings and an understated design in keeping with the rest of the property and the soaring ceilings.
Suite 1
The shower room and loo are separate.
Suite 2
The en-suite has a shower.
Suite 3
The magnificent built-in bath has three steps up into it and a shower overhead.

The fully equipped kitchen leads to the dining room indoors, or outside to a pergola-covered table. Guests can choose to have breakfast delivered daily and to have a private chef for a special meal or throughout their stay.

The house is wonderfully spacious and the main living room has deep olive-coloured sofas and calming cream walls. A smaller living room on the first floor is painted a warm terracotta colour and has built-in sofas. The dining room has a long dark wood dining table and is perfect in the cooler months when the fire can be lit. In the warmer months, guests can lounge outside and dine under the pergola or sit under the old trees giving lots of shade.

Leisure & Activities

We would be delighted to help you plan the details of your stay at Palazzo Edmondo in advance. The following are available on request: breakfast delivery daily at 9am; private chef, regional cooking classes, driver, boat rental, massage therapist, yoga instructor, personal trainer, wine tours and a tourist guide.

Surroundings

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Palazzo Edmondo is just five minutes’ drive from Lecce, otherwise known as Florence of the south. Cited as one of the most beautiful cities in southern Italy and heralded for its baroque splendour, wander the pretty streets and admire the incredible light as the sun bounces off the white stone. There are several smaller towns nearby that are also worth your time, including Nardò, whose rich history is best explored through food and architecture - in this case, fabulous fresh seafood and delicious pasticcerie, and a mix of Byzantine and Baroque palaces, chapels and churches. The Ionian coast is just a few kilometres away and its stunning mix of clear water, rocky coves and sandy beaches is not to be missed. The Porto Selvaggio nature reserve’s pine forest-fringed wild beaches, in particular, are dreamy. Discover Santa Caterina with its seafront restaurants and Santa Maria al Bagno for its beautiful cove. Or, discover the Torre Guaceto Nature Reserve on the Adriatic coast. If you fly from Bari, stop off at Polignano a Mare, a town built on limestone cliffs where its famous viewpoint, the Balconata sul Mare, offers incredible sea views and is home to occasional high-octane cliff-diving competitions.

Lecce (4km); Porto Cesareo (20km); Nardò (22km); Galatina (23km); Galatone (25km); Santa Caterina (33km); Porto Selvaggio (34km); Gallipoli (36km); Santa Maria al Bagno (40km); Otranto (51km); Brindisi (53km); Carovigno (75km); Santa Maria di Leuca (76km); Ostuni (82km); Grottaglie (92km); Martina Franca (109km); Monopoli (116km); Polignano a Mare (123km); and Bari (173km).

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.