Behind the Zambri Company stands the Ducal Castle of Bovino and in front of the valley until you lose your gaze on the landscape offered by the heights of the Dauni Mountains. Rocco Antonio Zambri, oenologist and owner of the company, has transformed his passion and his peasant history into a business activity. Red, rosé and classic method are the main vinifications used; there is also the extra virgin olive oil from the small olive grove of the Zambri company. A small “Bed and Wine” overlooking the vineyards will allow you to stay directly on the farm and fully enjoy the unique experience.
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The Paste’s house pasta factory offers gastronomic specialities typical of the Daunia mountains, such as pizzelle, laganelle and tacconetti, obtained from a careful selection of raw materials and accurate manufacturing and packaging processes. In the activity of the pasta factory, the ancient peasant tradition is respected which foreseen genuine and simple dishes or the use of vincotto, biscuits with figs, walnuts, pupatelli and calzone with chestnuts during the Christmas period or mash for the period Easter. In general, both the pasta and the desserts are typical of the local tradition and obtained according to traditional recipes and using genuine ingredients and at 0 km and maintain a perfect balance between original flavours and quality of the ingredients also respecting the Mediterranean diet. Types of pasta such as orecchiette and fusilli are traditionally associated with mixed meat sauce such as pork, lamb and veal, cavatelli are associated with broccoli and other types of local vegetables while pizzelle are typical with celery and tomato.
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For three generations, the Consiglio family has been carrying on the business of the Piana delle Mandrie company located in the beautiful countryside of Bovino. Here the Consiglio family lives daily through the crops and breeding of cattle, horses, sheep and through the transformation of their milk and fresh meats that give life to dairy products, cheeses, cured meats prepared according to the Bovinese tradition. The supply chain is closed in the splendid restaurant room inside the farm where the chef, with the utmost respect for the raw material, offers tasty dishes strictly linked to tradition and the territory.
The farm also offers the possibility of guided tours to the main points of interest in Bovino and educational paths that allow you to experience and enjoy the daily life of the farm through workshops that want to enhance and sensitize guests to healthy eating and respect for the environment.
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The history of the Giannotti family dates back to the first half of the nineteenth century. Today they are a story of excellence in the field of pastry and bakery products.
Their laboratory offers perfumes linked to a tradition that is confronted every day with pastry experimentation. Specialized in the production of leavened desserts, Giannotti also offers a vast assortment of fresh pastries, mignons, croissants and spreadable creams.
In the heart of Bovino, the Giannotti pastry shop is a must for all gourmands who go in search of the excellence of the territory and the typical products to taste.
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Small artisan cured meat factory in the heart of the Dauni Mountains, Salumi Fattibene is located in Bovino; known throughout the province since 1826 for the historic butchery and the quality of the selected meats, the Fattibene family wanted to transfer all their wisdom and ancient practices in the processing of raw materials to the company to give shape to the excellence of transformation through the production of cured meats such as soppressatona, capocollo, musciska, bacon and beef carpaccio. Experience, history, innovation, care of raw materials, are the elements that characterize the Fattibene cured meat factory, placing it among the excellence of the Monti Dauni.
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Founded in 1976 and based in Galatone (LE), the Comune Agricola Lunella is an organic farming company born from the initiative of Father Bruno Stefenelli and some young people who decide to devote themselves to the cultivation of a small plot of land as an alternative to emigration and as a commitment to promote and enhance the resources of the territory. Hence the choice to practice organic farming was even before the birth of certification bodies, excluding pesticides and chemical fertilizers, bearing in mind the climatic-environmental aspects that favour crops. From a community of young people, we gradually pass to a community of families who live on the company’s grounds sharing the same ideals.
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The Itaca association has been managing the Luna rural laboratory project for 6 years through the regeneration of an abandoned rural space and the recovery of traditional agricultural products, in particular, saffron and Galatone apricot, and apricot variety now abandoned due to the advent of new commercial varieties. The association also carries out social activities and promotion of the territory and rural traditions.
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Certified organic farm. Production and sale of vegetables, fresh fruit and tomato sauce
The main activity of the GALATEA 1931 AGRICULTURAL Cooperative is the transformation of the olives given by the members into oil and the marketing of extra virgin and virgin olive oil. In the current context, with the crisis triggered by the xylella fastidiosa bacteriosis, a replanting program has started with the supply to members of certified olive trees and innovative technical equipment essential for the planting of a modern olive grove.
Since 2020, the OPERA SEME project has been launched in collaboration with Caritas Diocesana Nardo’-Gallipoli and the IPSO FACTO Social Cooperative which deals with the marketing of extra virgin olive oil directly to the consumer through direct and online sales.
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Gustavo was born in the 2000s, initially as a small seaside restaurant that a few years later moved to the hinterland, specifically in Galatone in a lovely 1940s residence with an adjoining suggestive garden. Thus began a project that in the space of a few years is consolidated due to its characteristics mainly linked to the criteria of hospitality and responsible food linked to the territory. The response and success are immediate. After a few years, the group expands with a new receptive structure, a suggestive masseria immersed in the Salento countryside. The sites gustavoristoro.it and masseriasansebastiano.com can be visited.
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FARMHOUSE WITH WELCOME AND RESTAURANT ACTIVITIES Masseria Fulcignano offers its guests an unforgettable stay within the ancient walls of a typical Apulian farm.
Set in Galatone, 30 km from Lecce, Masseria Fulcignano offers a restaurant and free WiFi. Some rooms feature a flat-screen TV with Nintendo Wii, a private bathroom with bathrobes and a kitchen with a refrigerator. A buffet breakfast is served each morning. Guests can relax in the garden, next to the outdoor pool, on the sun terrace or in the shared lounge area.
In the Apulian countryside, inside the archaeological park of the Castle of Fulcignano, in the heart of Salento, there is a farm surrounded by olive trees where the olives are transformed into oil, strictly extra virgin, of superior category, declined in the different notes of velvety, spicy or fruity quality. The hectares of land surrounding Masseria Fulcignano are dedicated by the property to the cultivation of olive trees and vegetables and fruits typical of the land of Puglia. Every corner of this land, the centuries-old olive trees, the “pagghiare”, the peasant shelters, the imposing enclosure walls that surround the countryside, tell an ancient story, of a people who have lived and worked here for at least two thousand years to date, taking care of this land and its fruits. A stay at the farm will be an opportunity to try the fruits of this land, extra virgin olive oil, jams, wines and any other delicacy offered by the farm, all rigorously homemade.
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This project is co-financed by the European Union under the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA II)