Masseria Santo Scalone

Seated dinner: 100 guests

“Sixty guests is the floor and a hundred the practical ceiling.”

Smallest party taken: 60 guests

“Sixty guests is the floor and a hundred the practical ceiling.”

Sleeps: 60 guests

“Sixty beds in all.”

Room types: 15 listed

“Standard Double Room”

Whole property to yourselves: Yes

“The estate is taken whole for three nights at €34,000 with tax, the same price midweek as at the weekend.”

Shortest whole-property stay: 3 nights

“The estate is taken whole for three nights at €34,000 with tax, the same price midweek as at the weekend.”

Whole property must be taken with the wedding: Yes

“Nineteen rooms in the masseria account for 48 of them, and two dependances add six double rooms, and every one is part of the buyout, so nobody else is on the estate for the three nights.”

Legal ceremony on site: No

“The estate offers a symbolic ceremony rather than a civil one, so the chapel is a setting rather than a registry.”

Chapel on site: Yes

“The masseria is whitewashed and low, with a chapel built onto one end of it, and the gardens around it are laid out plainly: lawns, dry-stone walls, a long pool edged with agapanthus, and terracotta parasols that are the only strong colour anywhere.”

Outdoor ceremony: Yes

“Where the ceremony and the dinner go, on grass between the masseria and the olive groves, with the chapel at one end of the building.”

Indoor option if it rains: Yes

“Two of them, vaulted and white, which between them are the wet-weather answer and the setting for a smaller dinner.”

In-house catering: Yes

“The kitchen does all of it except the pizza, which comes from an outside supplier, and the menus run to live stations: a panzerotto corner, a bakery corner, mozzarella and burrata made fresh, an open grill of bombette and sausages or grilled octopus.”

Nights the booking must cover: 3 nights

“The estate is taken whole for three nights at €34,000 with tax, the same price midweek as at the weekend.”

Included: Rooms and breakfast

“€34,000 with tax for three nights in June or September, which takes the whole estate, all the rooms and an abundant sweet and savoury breakfast every morning.”

Exclusive use required: Yes

“Nineteen rooms in the masseria account for 48 of them, and two dependances add six double rooms, and every one is part of the buyout, so nobody else is on the estate for the three nights.”

Event spaces: Banquet room

“Meeting/banquet facilities”

Reception indoors: Yes

“Inside there is a vaulted dining room with pendant lights and rush-seated chairs, and a smaller room papered in a faded damask.”

Reception outdoors: Yes

“Where the ceremony and the dinner go, on grass between the masseria and the olive groves, with the chapel at one end of the building.”

Setting: Countryside, historic, elegant

“Situata su una collina, tra il mare Adriatico e la campagna di Ostuni in Puglia, la Masseria Santo Scalone custodisce i colori e i profumi di questa autentica e genuina terra.”

Swimming pool: Yes

“Pool access included with complimentary towels”

Vineyard: Yes

“You will be surrounded by the flourish gardens, discovering the olive trees, the scents of aromatic herbs, the vineyard and an organic garden that surprises in all seasons.”

Gardens: Yes

“You will be surrounded by the flourish gardens, discovering the olive trees, the scents of aromatic herbs, the vineyard and an organic garden that surprises in all seasons.”

Historic building: Yes

“Built in the late 1300s, Masseria Santo Scalone is one of the oldest fortified buildings in Ostuni.”