Relais Masseria La Grande Quercia

Why it’s on the Edit

Relais Masseria La Grande Quercia is a masseria, a Puglian farmhouse estate, built in 1894 in the countryside of San Basilio near Mottola. The Regione Puglia register for 2026 lists it as a four-star spa hotel with 18 rooms and 54 beds, open all year.

The website presents it as a wedding venue in Puglia, run by the Romanazzi family, and almost every page is about receptions, civil ceremonies and other parties. The rooms, the Eden wellness center and the pools come with that.

The offer is a full wedding in one place: the civil rite, the reception, the chef and a suite for the couple’s first night. It sits in the first of five price bands (an estimate, since no official rate was found).

The rooms

The register describes an old house fully restored and enlarged in a rustic-modern style, and counts 18 lodgings with 54 beds. That is three beds per room on average, so ask which rooms take a third person if you travel as a family or share with other wedding guests.

The hotel stresses that it has only 18 rooms. The register lists independent air conditioning and heating, a safe, satellite TV, soundproofing, a minibar and a telephone in the rooms, with free Wi-Fi and a free internet point.

For couples, the website promises a suite to use during the celebration and for the first night of the marriage. Room types, sizes, views and bathrooms are not confirmed here, so ask for a room plan before you book a block for guests.

The register also lists accessible toilets and fixed fittings indoors, and accessible paths, paving, parking and signage outdoors. If anyone in your party uses a wheelchair, ask which rooms suit them.

Eating and drinking

The executive chef is Francesco Cinquepalmi, a member of the Nazionale Italiana Cuochi, the Italian national chefs’ team. The masseria says he cooks Puglian food culture without fear of unusual flavors and pairings, from produce grown and harvested locally.

For weddings the menu is built with the couple, to their taste, and the service is run by waiters under the masseria’s maître. Site visits are booked by appointment, with the director, Vincenzo Albanese, walking you around the masseria.

The register describes the everyday cooking in plainer words: homemade pasta, meat from the grill, mushrooms, fish and typical Puglian dishes.

Breakfast and the restaurant’s hours for hotel guests on nights without an event are not confirmed here. Ask both when you book.

The setting

The masseria stands among flowers, olive trees and lawns in the San Basilio countryside. For civil ceremonies it offers three settings: the shade of the centuries-old oak (quercia in Italian), the garden of the old threshing floor, and the hall of the former hayloft.

The register lists a garden with a children’s playground and areas to rest, the Eden wellness center and pools. Treatments, pool sizes and opening hours are not confirmed here.

Mottola is the town nearby. Italia.it places it inside the Terra delle Gravine regional park, named for its gravine, deep ravines cut by water and wind, where rock-dwelling communities lived from prehistory.

Italia.it’s Mottola page names the rock village of Petruscio and the crypt church of San Nicola at Masseria Casalrotto, which keeps old frescoes. Ask the masseria how far each is by car.

Good to know

• Category: four stars, spa hotel, in the Regione Puglia register, 2026, with 18 rooms and 54 beds.
• Open all year according to the register (January 1 to December 31, 2026).
• Civil weddings on site, LGBTQ+ ceremonies included. Receptions after church weddings too.
• Birthdays, graduations, anniversaries, baptisms and communions are hosted as well, so ask what is booked on your dates.
• The register lists a deposit of 40% by bank transfer.
• Staff languages listed: Italian, English and French.
• The website gives the address on the SS100 state road at San Basilio, the register gives Contrada Terzi. Ask for a map pin before you drive.
• Not confirmed here: room sizes, breakfast, pets and spa treatments.
• Price band: 1 of 5 (estimated: no official rate found).

Who it suits, and who should look elsewhere

Couples planning a wedding in Puglia who want the civil rite, the party and the rooms in one place are the core audience, along with the guests who come with them. The register lists pools and a children’s playground, useful if wedding guests bring children.

Look elsewhere if you want a quiet masseria for a week of reading by the pool: weddings and parties come first here.

If the spa matters more to you than the party, Casa Isabella, also at San Basilio near Mottola, is a four-star hotel in an 1879 ducal palace with 23 rooms, 3 suites and a spa with a Finnish sauna, a Turkish bath and a covered heated pool. It hosts weddings too, in a garden for up to 300 guests, so ask what is booked on your dates there as well.

If the sea decides the trip, pick a stay on the Ionian coast instead: the beach here is a car trip away.

Getting there

Bari is the nearer of the two airports, at 49 km in a straight line. Brindisi is 84 km away.

Aim for Mottola and the San Basilio countryside, in the Taranto and the Ionian coast area. The website gives its address as SS100 km 50 at San Basilio, the register as Contrada Terzi 249, so ask for a map pin. The register lists accessible parking.

Plan on a car. The masseria is in open country, and Mottola’s rock churches, Taranto and the Ionian beaches are all separate trips. Whether it arranges airport transfers is not confirmed here. If you organize a wedding, ask about shuttles for the guests who do not get one of the 18 rooms.