Editor’s Note
"Nardò is not on the usual Puglia tourist circuit. A baroque town of churches, monasteries and a castle, seven kilometres from the Ionian Sea and 20 from Lecce, it has the texture of a place still lived in rather than curated for visitors. Palazzo Tafuri sits opposite the monastery of Santa Chiara: an 18th-century palazzo restored over two years by local builders and craftsmen, and opened as a 16-room boutique hotel by owners whose passion for Italy, its food, people and land, is the heart of the hotel’s ethos."
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Review
In one of the oldest quarters of Nardò, facing the monastery of Santa Chiara, Count and Countess d'Espous discovered Palazzo Tafuri on one of their regular journeys through Italy and decided to restore it entirely. Two years of work with…
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