Casa Badra

Simple Luxuries: An Exclusive Puglian Trulli Experience

A group of luxuriously updated dry stone-stacked trulli and a spacious lamia converted into five bedrooms with a spacious communal kitchen space, this vast villa for rent in Italy combines ancient tradition with cool, pared down modern styling that screams personal comfort and easy sophistication. The complex is surrounded by four hectares of organic olive orchards and Mediterranean gardens cut through with bike lanes and walking trails.

Showcasing whitewashed interior walls and tidy flagstone floors, these adorable, cone-roofed structures soothe with their unpretentious luxury, and the lamia is flanked by a spacious alfresco-living-focused terrace and pool scape. Outdoor living is the property's focus, its stone-paved terrace steps from its pool.

The property's charmed spaces include an Italian country kitchen full of professional appliances, a cozy living room, and five varied sleep suites, Agave, Carciofo, Fico, Melograno and Fico d'India. Suites are double occupancy, have en suite baths with showers, (the primary suite also has a tub), and some rooms offer independent access to the outdoor space. The largest bedroom suite is built across four, archway connected trulli cones.

Outdoor living is at a premium here, the stone paved terrace outfitted with shady pergolas and seating areas, cushy built in sofa seating, outdoor lounges and dining tables, plus there's a panoramic roof terrace that takes in the olive grove-blanketed area. Tour bookings in the area can be reserved.

Read a short history of the trullo in our Stories section here.

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This villa for rent in Italy is located in the countryside only four kilometers from the UNESCO World Heritage site of Alberobello, where over 1,000 trulli structures are protected. Other villages of note a quick drive away include Cisternino, Ostuni or the magical “white village", and Locorotundo, surrounded by vineyards where its namesake local wine is made. 

The Itria Valley occupies southern Italy’s boot heel and is close to both the Adriatic and Mediterranean seas. The region’s sought-after trulli were once agricultural storerooms, and they rise in every direction from the stony hills. Dating from prehistoric times, the structures display well-preserved examples of ancient dry stone, or mortarless, construction. 

Another nearby UNESCO Heritage site is the troglodyte village of Matera. Restaurants, cafes, bars and tasting rooms join markets, shops and artisanal boutiques and galleries throughout the region. Half a dozen beaches with turquoise Adriatic waters are further afield as are charming coastal villages such as Polignano a Mare and Monopoli, the coastal cathedral and town of Trani, and the Holy Roman Emperor's Castel del Monti near Andria.

Location: Alberobello, Puglia, Italy. Nearest airport: Brindisi (70km), Bari (74km)

Best Time to Visit: March to September