Relais chateaux in Italy: Torre Coccaro is the name of this Masseria in Apulia,
built in the XVI century.
The land around it is full of antique olive trees. The mission of the
5 star hotel resort and relais chateaux in Italy that will derive from this restoration work is
to bring back the guests to the antique natural life.
This kind of Masserias are infact sighting towers against the attacks
of the turks pirates and they are all in the same line approx. 1 km from
the sea in order to see first the attack. With the passing of time they
have been used for the production of the green gold: the olive oil, infact
we are in the biggest producing area of high quality olive oil in all
of Italy. Also in the Masseria were bred many kinds of cattles, donkeys
of the murgian race, horses for work, pigs for making splendid parma ham
or capicollo that are still produced at the masseria and milk by products
from goats an cows the famous burrate and mozzarelle.