During the early 1900s our peasant ancestors concentrated in the most fertile areas of the territory, building boxes of the farmer, often called the “tower” because it consist of one, maximum two rooms.
The tower served the farmer cultivating the soil, as a shelter from the tools and as a refuge from the hot and a moment of refreshment during winter.
While in summer, the tower, surrounded by crops and the olive trees that extend from here to the sea it was also used as a “holiday house” for the whole family that enjoyed the magical place while working in the fields, ending the days with dinner in the open air enjoing the local genuine products freshly picked from the surrounding fields, usually ate the so-called “cialledda”, a fresh dish, poor but very tasty, made with homemade bread seasoned with fresh tomato, watermelon, olive oil, garlic and salt. All this accompanied by an excellent Apulian wine, produced by the vines of the Valle d’itria and the sound of crickets and cicadas.
