Can we get legally married there?

Not at the masseria. The civil ceremony happens at the Ostuni town hall — twenty minutes, eleven people — and the ceremony that matters happens on the terrace at eight.

How do guests get around?

Two minibuses on a fixed loop from Ostuni, six until two. Ask people not to hire cars: the lane has one passing place.

Green hills falling away to a valley at dusk

Château & masseria

Masseria Torreluna

near Ostuni, Puglia

A fortified farmhouse with eleven rooms, four hectares of olives and a stone terrace that faces west. Take it for five nights, not one.

Seated: 120
Standing: 180
Beds: 24
Indicative hire: £11,000–£22,000Price band 3 of 4
Dates open: Spring, Summer, Autumn

The terrace is the whole argument: forty metres of it, facing directly into the sunset, with a wall low enough to sit on and high enough to stop the wind.

Eleven bedrooms means immediate family on site and everyone else in Ostuni, eight minutes away. We run two minibuses on a loop from six until two, and it works better than hire cars ever do.

Book the whole week either side of the wedding if you can. The Friday dinner under the olives changes the sound of the room on Saturday.

What you get

Forty-metre west-facing terrace
Five-night exclusive use
In-house kitchen, or bring your own
Eleven rooms sleeping twenty-four
Single-track access — minibuses essential
Civil ceremony in Ostuni, eight minutes away

A low white villa beside a pool in hard southern light

A long table laid down its length with autumn flowers, glasses and place settings

A valley at dusk with the light nearly gone

A plated course set down on a laid table

A figure in a white dress on an open road with hills behind

Questions

Can we get legally married there?: Not at the masseria. The civil ceremony happens at the Ostuni town hall — twenty minutes, eleven people — and the ceremony that matters happens on the terrace at eight.
How do guests get around?: Two minibuses on a fixed loop from Ostuni, six until two. Ask people not to hire cars: the lane has one passing place.

Where it is

near Ostuni

Puglia, IT

40.7297, 17.5773

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Sample venue, invented for this build. Prices are indicative bands rather than quotes.

Ask us about Masseria Torreluna.

We will tell you what it is actually like on a wet Tuesday, what the quoted price does not include, and whether your date is realistic.

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