Left abandoned for centuries, this 16th century stone palazzo was brought back ovemetres, original cocciopesto and cementineking with local craftsmen. The result is restrained rather than opulent. Star vaulted ceilings rise to eight metres, original cocciopesto and cementine floors run underfoot, and the palette is drawn from the Salento landscape. The palazzo is taken privately as a whole, a house for a couple and the people closest to them rather than a venue running several parties through a day.
Behind high walls lies the heart of it: a secret garden designed by the landscape architects Rebediani Scaccabarozzi, who drew on the Roman garden frescoes of the Villa of Livia, layering historical planting with ancient bulbs. A lap pool stretches between 17th century stone colonnades in the shade of citrus trees, fully private and overlooked by no one.
“Most Italian weddings cluster along the same few coastlines. Palazzo Edmondo sits somewhere quieter: Monteroni di Lecce, a Salento village in the south of Puglia, steps from its main piazza and five minutes from Baroque Lecce, the Florence of the South, with both the Adriatic and Ionian coasts around twenty minutes away.”
Three suites, each with its own bathroom and private outdoor space, sleep six, or up to eight with children, and a minimum stay of three nights turns the wedding into a proper stay. With the whole palazzo yours and both coasts within reach, the day becomes the centre of a few unhurried days rather than a single afternoon.
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