Masseria Calongo

Why it’s on the Edit

Masseria Calongo is a small agriturismo on Contrada Calongo in the countryside of Cisternino, in the Valle d’Itria. An agriturismo is a working farm that lets rooms and often serves its own food.

The 2021 Regione Puglia register files it at Contrada Calongo 4, postcode 72014, with 6 units, 5 bathrooms and 12 beds: two beds per unit on average. The masseria has its own website, but the site blocks automated readers, so the Edit did not read it.

It enters under the wider selection bar that admits small guesthouses. This page says what the register states and marks the rest as not confirmed. The register also lists the email info@masseriacalongo.com and the site www.masseriacalongo.com, so a short email is the quickest route to the missing details.

The rooms

With 5 bathrooms for 6 units, at least one unit shares or goes without, so ask which rooms have a private bathroom.

The register records these room services: independent air conditioning and heating, a TV, a minibar, hydromassage and a kitchenette. Its rate codes name double rooms.

Room names, sizes, views and which unit has hydromassage or a kitchenette are not confirmed here. Ask the owners for the list before you choose.

Eating and drinking

The register lists a dinner and a tasting meal among the services the masseria prices. That points to meals for guests, but the register gives no menu, and the meals appear as priced rate codes rather than as a restaurant entry.

The days, the hours and whether outside guests may book are not confirmed here. Breakfast is not confirmed either, so check whether it is in the rate. The kitchenettes in the rooms mean you can also cook for yourself.

The setting

Cisternino is a town of the Itria Valley. The comune describes an old center entered through Porta Grande, with polished chianche paving underfoot and a medieval fabric that has stayed nearly intact.

Its four quarters, with an outer one, form a small maze of lanes and open spaces, where lime-white houses, alleys decorated with geraniums, stairs, loggias and arches alternate. The Clock Tower stands on Piazza Vittorio Emanuele III.

UNESCO notes that rural trulli stand all along the Itria Valley, although their highest concentration is in Alberobello.

The comune publishes seven public car parks for visitors, with 100 places on Via Clarizia and 120 at Piazza della Cultura e dello Sport. It also lists a tourist tax on overnight stays in the town’s accommodations, so ask the owners whether the quote includes it.

The masseria’s own grounds, any pool and any farm activity are not confirmed here, and neither is the way to the sea.

Good to know

• Category: agriturismo, 6 units, 12 beds, per the 2021 regional register.
• Opening period declared in 2021: the whole year. Check the current season.
• Air conditioning, heating, TV, minibar, hydromassage and kitchenette are listed for the units.
• A dinner and a tasting meal are among the registered services.
• Pool, parking, pets, children and weddings are not confirmed here.
• Ask the owners which units have hydromassage, what dinner and the tasting meal include, whether outside guests can book them, and how to reach the farm by road.
• Price band: 1 of 5 (estimated: no official rate found).

Who it suits, and who should look elsewhere

It suits travelers who want a small farm stay near Cisternino with a kitchenette, and who will confirm the unit, the season and the meals with the owners before paying. Its 2021 filing was open all year, which makes winter a fair question to put to them.

To see a pool and a published list of units first, start with Masseria Pentima Vetrana, which publishes its six units, or Masseria Trulli e Vigne, which publishes its suites, its pool hours and its restaurant hours.

Getting there

Masseria Calongo is on Contrada Calongo, near Cisternino, in the Valle d’Itria. Brindisi airport is the nearer airport, and Bari is the alternative.

A car is the practical way to arrive. We hold the position only to the locality, so this page gives no distance to the center of Cisternino or to the sea. Parking and transfers are not confirmed here, so ask the owners where to leave the car and whether they can meet you on arrival.