Villa Don Gaetano Miggiano
The villa was planned and built
in 1859 by willing of Carmine Olivieri – chemist and
notable in Triggiano – on the purpose of offering his
large family a comfortable and glamorous staying at the seashore.
Originally painted in yellow, it is bond to stay forever this
way because on the charts it is referred to “the yellow
house”.
With the pureness of its classical shape, the villa –
with its beautiful olive-grove and orchard – faces the
wonderful Marina Serra’s bay situated in Tricase (Lecce);
you may feel under impression of hearing Homeric resonances
coming from its shining and full of mystery sea and that whispering
of that myth-crowded world that once was Magna Grecia.
Gaetano Miggiani,Olivieri’s family only heir,
on the half of last century, was bid to run, as well as the
villa on the seashore, a large country property needing a
steady management. He held control by the typical old fashioned
country-gentlemen style, that disappearing kind of men who
believed the land is the highest good, to be honored with
hard and never-ending work.
The nowadays landlady, Gaetano Miggiani’s grandnephew,
fixed the villa, so it can be inhabited all year round, and
named it fondly and respectfully after her Uncle.
Main cities and distances:
Brindisi,100 Km - Gallipoli,50 Km – Lecce,60 Km
– Maglie,30 Km - Otranto,30 Km - Porto Badisco,20 Km
- S.Cesarea Terme,15 Km – S.Maria di Leuca,10 Km.
How
to come here
1) BY PLANE: Brindisi
airport, bus shuttle to Lecce then by train or by bus until
to Tricase (car renting is strongly recommended)
2) BY TRAIN: Lecce
station, then directly by bus right from railway station.
3) BY CAR: Motorway
A14 until Bari, then highway E55 until Brindisi, then SS16
until Tricase, then follow signs for Marina Serra.
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