Masseria Le Cerase – An Apulian Masseria

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  • Massage in nature

    Massage in nature

    Offriamo ai nostri ospiti rilassanti trattamenti ayurvedici immersi nella natura, per sperimentare armonia e tranquillità grazie a massaggi eseguiti da una terapeuta specializzata.

  • Boat Tour

    Boat Tour

    Offriamo ai nostri ospiti la possibilità di partecipare a tour in barca, organizzati da agenzie convenzionate, per esplorare le spiagge più belle e le suggestive grotte della costa.

  • Top 8 in Conversano to see absolutely

    Top 8 in Conversano to see absolutely

    CASTLE AND ART GALLERY

    The County of Conversano belonged to four noble houses, in succession: Altavilla, Brienne, Orsini del Balzo and finally Acquaviva d’Aragona. The feud lasted from 1054 to 1806. Originally a Norman fortress, in the 15th and 17th centuries the Castle was remodeled several times, until it was transformed into a sumptuous stately home. Inside it is now located the “Municipal Art Gallery”, where you can admire the large canvases of the seventeenth-century Neapolitan painter Paolo Finoglio, depicting episodes from the “Gerusalemme Liberata”, the famous epic poem by Torquato Tasso.

    CATHEDRAL

    The Cathedral, in Romanesque-puglise style, was built between the 11th and 12th centuries, renovated in the late Baroque style, and then in 1911, following a fire, restored to its original form. The gabled façade is characterized in the upper part by a fifteenth-century rose window with twelve rays and by three portals: the central one has a rich sculptural decoration with two column-bearing lions.

    MONASTERY OF SAN BENEDETTO – ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM

    The Monastery of San Benedetto, called “Monstrum Apuliae” (Apulian wonder) because in 1274 Pope Gregory X conferred on the abbess (woman) bishopric functions (purely male), a situation almost unique in Western Christianity. The church and the medieval cloister are beautiful. Inside it is now located the Archaeological Civic Museum.

    CHURCH OF SAN COSMA AND DAMIANO

    In the seventeenth century the Counts of Conversano commissioned the restructuring of an ancient church in Baroque style, naming it after the Saints Cosma and Damiano, to whom they were particularly devoted, having received a grace. The decorative apparatus inside the church is sumptuous, an authentic triumph of the Neapolitan Baroque.

    CHURCH AND CONVENT OF SANTA MARIA DELL’ISOLA

    Located about 2 km from the city center, it was built in 1462 by the counts Giovanni Antonio Orsini del Balzo and Giulio Antonio Acquaviva. The church with two naves today is in late Gothic style with mostly Renaissance interior furnishings. In the apse of the oldest nave there is the cenotaph (funeral monument without the body) of Giulio Antonio Acquaviva, killed in the siege of Otranto in 1481.

    HUNTING LODGE MARCHIONE CASTLE

    Elegant hunting lodge, built around 1730 by the Acquaviva d’Aragona counts in a wood, 6 km from Conversano. The building, whose construction is attributed to the architect Vincenzo Ruffo of the Vanvitellian school, has a square plan, with the four vertices characterized by circular stone towers.

    MASSERIA LE CERASE

    The ‘Masserie’ was a typical agricultural construction in Southern Italy, consisting of a set of buildings where the owners, farmers, shepherds and animals lived in close contact. “Le Cerase” is an important and rich farmhouse, with a chapel and fortified by walls and a defensive tower.

    TOWER AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL RUINS OF CASTIGLIONE

    About 5 km from Conversano, on the top of a wooded hill, stands a high tower with a square base, together with the remains of a wall and the villaio di Castiglione, abandoned at the end of the 15th century.

  • The 10 places not to be missed in Puglia

    The 10 places not to be missed in Puglia

    POLIGNANO AND THE BENEDICTINE ABBEY OF SAN VITO

    The oldest part of the town stands on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Adriatic Sea. Not far away, the 10th century Abbey of San Vito Martire, of Benedictine foundation, is beautiful.

    ALBEROBELLO – TRULLI

    The trullo is a typical conical construction in traditional dry stone of central-southern Puglia. Trulli were generally built as temporary shelters in the countryside or permanent homes for farmers. Much of Alberobello is made up of trulli.

    MONOPOLI

    The historic center of Monopoli is a jewel of popular architecture mixed with sumptuous religious buildings and splendid noble palaces. It is Porta Vecchia, inserted in the walls, to introduce the old part of the city, lying on the Adriatic and dominated by the Castle. The heart of the old city is the baroque Cathedral of Santa Maria della Madia.

    CASTELLANA CAVES

    Considered the most important speleological complex in Italy and Europe, the Castellana Caves are particularly appreciated for the richness of crystalline concretions, the considerable extension and the spectacular vastness of the natural galleries. The caves are the result of the erosive action of an ancient underground river that has dug and shaped the limestone rock for centuries.

    BARI

    Divided into two parts – the old city and the new city – Bari preserves, in the old historic center, fascinating narrow and twisted alleys, and numerous testimonies of the medieval and Renaissance past, such as the Castle and the Cathedral. Still, in the basilica of San Nicola the remains of the Saint are preserved from which the figure of Santa Claus derives, the Santa Claus of the Nordic countries.

    THE WHITE CITIES:
    OSTUNI – LOCOROTONDO – MARTINA FRANCA – CISTERNINO – CELIE MESSAPICA

    White Cities are magical places. They are called ‘white’ because of the white lime used to paint the facades of houses, also useful for sanitizing the town in times of plague.

    TRANI

    In Trani it is nice to walk between the port and the Jewish quarter of Giudecca, among ancient synagogues and craft shops. Its Cathedral, isolated on the sea, is an incredible monument of Apulian Romanesque architecture in limestone.

    MATERA – I SASSI

    It is known all over the world for the historic Sassi districts. Developed from the natural caves carved into the rock, used as homes, and subsequently modeled into increasingly complex structures within two large natural amphitheaters, the Sasso Cavernoso and the Sasso Baresano.

    CASTEL DEL MONTE

    Castel del Monte is a 13th century fortress, on the top of a hill 540 meters above sea level in the western Murgia plateau, built by Frederick II of Swabia, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Sicily. The building has an octagonal plan and an octagonal turret is inserted at each corner.

    LECCE

    Palaces, Churches and Monuments with their curls and their decorations in the malleable ‘Lecce stone’ have given the city of Lecce the current connotation of “Lady of the Baroque”.

  • The most beautiful beaches near Conversano

    The most beautiful beaches near Conversano

    COZZE _ MOLA DI BARI

    Coco Beach
    G.P.S. 41.03636 – 17.14526
    (paid access – rock and sand)
    8 km from Conversano, 9 minutes

    COZZE _ MOLA DI BARI

    Cala Arena
    G.P.S. 41.03636 – 17.14526
    (paid access – sand)
    8 km from Conversano, 9 minutes

    POLIGNANO A MARE

    Cala Fetente
    G.P.S. 41.026229 – 17.17744
    (free access – stones, rocks and sand)
    11 km from Conversano, 12 minutes

    POLIGNANO A MARE

    Lido di Cala Paura
    G.P.S. 40. 99959 – 17.21398
    (free access – stones and rocks)
    Boat for tour of the Polignano a Mare caves
    13 km from Conversano, 16 minutes

    POLIGNANO A MARE

    Cala S.Giovanni
    G.P.S. 41.01628 – 17.18755
    (paid access – rock and sand)
    13 km from Conversano, 14 minutes

    POLIGNANO A MARE

    Lama Monachile
    G.P.S. 40. 996449 – 17.21847
    (free access – stones and rocks)
    Boat for tour of the Polignano a Mare caves
    11 km from Conversano, 16 min

    POLIGNANO A MARE

    Torre di San Vito
    G.P.S. 41. 01496 – 17.19304
    (free access – stones and rocks)
    15 km from Conversano, 17 min

    POLIGNANO A MARE

    Torre Incina
    G.P.S. 41.026229 – 17.17744
    (free access – stones, rocks and sand)
    15 km from Conversano, 17 minutes

    POLIGNANO A MARE

    Isola dell’Eremita
    G.P.S. 40.992903, 17.236882
    (free access – stones, rocks and sand)
    13,2 km from Conversano, 16 min

    MONOPOLI

    Contrada Capitolo
    Lido Sabbiadoro – Lido Le Macchie – Lido LoSciale – etc
    G.P.S. 40.89908 – 17.36375
    (paid access – many beaches – sand)
    27 km from Conversano, 25 minutes

    MONOPOLI

    Porto Ghiacciolo
    G.P.S. 40.93066 – 17.32973
    (free access – rock and sand) 25 km from Conversano, 26 minutes

    MONOPOLI

    Cala Verde
    G.P.S. 40.92169- 17.33741
    (free access – rock and sand) 26 km from Conversano, 31 minutes

    CAROVIGNO

    Oasi Naturale Area marina protetta di Torre Guaceto – Spiagggia di Torre Guaceto
    G.P.S. 40.71609 – 17.79258
    (Free access – rock and sand)
    72 km from Conversano, 49 minutes

  • Distances

    Distances

    Grotte di Castellana Grotte km 13,8 – G.P.S. N 40° 88’ 60” – E 17° 16’ 41”
    time to go:17 mm

    Polignano a Mare km 8,9 – G.P.S. N 40° 99’ 52” – E 17° 21’ 13”
    time to go: 9 mm

    Monopoli km 16 – G.P.S. N 40° 95’ 30” – E 17° 30’ 02”
    time to go: 15 mm

    Alberobello km 26,8 – G.P.S. N 40° 78’ 14” – E 17° 23’ 82”
    time to go: 29 mm

    Locorotondo km 41,7 – G.P.S. N 40° 45’ 22’’ – E 17° 19’ 38’’
    time to go: 34 mm

    Martina Franca km 43 – G.P.S. N 40° 70’ 49” – E 17° 34’ 04”
    time to go: 47,4 mm

    Matera km 62,5 – G.P.S. N 40° 66’ 76’’ – E 16° 59’ 98’’
    time to go: 1h

    Cisternino km 49,6 – G.P.S. N 40° 44’ 35” – E 17° 25’ 33’’
    time to go: 40 mm

    Ostuni km 55,7 – G.P.S. N 40° 72’ 74” – E 17° 57’ 62”
    time to go: 39 mm

    Bari km 31,9 – G.P.S. N 41° 12’ 56’’ – E 16° 87’ 21’’
    time to go: 26 mm

    Trani km 81,6 – G.P.S. N 41° 27’ 66’’ – E 16° 41’ 94’’
    time to go: 55 mm

    Castel del Monte (Andria) km 89,1 – G.P.S. N 41° 08’ 44’’ – E 16° 27’ 16’’
    time to go: 1h 11 mm

    Lecce km 123 – G.P.S. N 40° 35’ 21’’ – E 18° 16’ 45’’
    time to go: 1h 14 mm

    Otranto km 171 – G.P.S. N 40° 08’ 52’’ – E° 18° 29’ 12’’
    time to go: 1h 46 mm

    Gallipoli km 162 – G.P.S. N 40° 05’ 55’’ – E° 17° 97’ 63’’
    time to go: 1h 40 mm

  • Cooking Class

    Cooking Class

    Our  chef will lead you into the heart of the Apulian cuisine. You will learn how to prepare the dough with bran and flour, adding just enough salt and water, giving life to the typical orecchiette, the witty cavatelli and strascinate or our Pugliese panzerotto.

    The lesson will be seasoned with the story dedicated to the agricultural production of the different types of wheat, with nice anecdotes related to tradition and local history. A good glass of wine will spoil your heart and stimulate your creativity.

  • Typical dinner in Masseria

    Typical dinner in Masseria

    Spend an evening in the magical atmosphere of Masseria Le Cerase. Our “pizza chef” will make you enjoy a tasty pizza cooked in our ancient oven.