# Puglia Villa & Vacation Rentals 2027 | Doorways > Whitewashed towns, olive groves and two coastlines: hand-inspected luxury villas across Puglia, with Matera and the Itria Valley close by. Source: https://villavacations.com/destinations/puglia/ ![Puglia villas — hand-selected luxury rentals](https://villavacations.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/puglia-coki-trulli-hero.jpg) The Heel of the Boot # Puglia Villas Whitewashed towns, cone-roofed trulli, ancient olive groves, and a sea so blue it almost asks too much. Whitewashed towns, cone-roofed trulli, ancient olive groves, and a sea so blue it almost asks too much. Puglia is the heel of Italy and the country's most underrated holiday region — long, low-slung, full of light, and only just beginning to fill up with travellers who used to go further north. Stay in a restored masseria (a fortified farmhouse) and the holiday goes Mediterranean: the pool in the centre of the courtyard, the olive groves on every side, the chef who arrives at six. Villas Hand-selected stays in Puglia [Browse Villas →](https://villavacations.com/villas/?region=Puglia) Best Villas ## Best villas in *Puglia* ![Villa Dagea](https://villavacations.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Villa-Dagea-hero-1024x683.webp) Puglia ### Villa Dagea 3 Beds·3 Baths·6 Guests From €12,800 / week ![Villa Cantamusa](https://villavacations.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Villa-Cantamusa-hero-1024x683.webp) Puglia ### Villa Cantamusa 4 Beds·4 Baths·8 Guests From €11,500 / week ![Villa Stillante](https://villavacations.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/villa-stillante-01-20240115_142733_6730jpg-1024x683.jpg) Puglia ### Villa Stillante 4 Beds·4 Baths·8 Guests From €10,000 / week ![Villa Coki](https://villavacations.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/villa-coki-NEW-01-20250418_130532_3358jpg-1024x683.jpg) Puglia ### Villa Coki 5 Beds·5 Baths·10 Guests From €9,830 / week ![Villa Leonda](https://villavacations.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Villa-Leonda-hero-1024x685.webp) Puglia ### Villa Leonda 5 Beds·5 Baths·10 Guests From €53,335 / week ![Villa Brezzablu](https://villavacations.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Villa-Brezzablu-hero-1024x683.webp) Puglia ### Villa Brezzablu 6 Beds·6 Baths·12 Guests From €9,450 / week ![Villa Brillalta](https://villavacations.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Villa-Brillata-hero-1024x683.webp) Puglia ### Villa Brillalta 6 Beds·6 Baths·12 Guests From €16,000 / week Puglia ### Villa Hiera 7 Beds·7 Baths·16 Guests From €16,425 / week [View All Villas in Puglia](https://villavacations.com/villas/?region=Puglia) Experiences ## Activities & *experiences* ### A private boat day along the Salento coast A captained gozzo from Otranto or Santa Maria di Leuca down the coast to Punta Pizzo, the sea caves at Grotta della Poesia, swim stops between, lunch on board. ### A day in Lecce Ninety minutes south. The baroque churches in their honey-stone glow, an artisan papier-mâché workshop (a Lecce tradition), dinner at Bros' or Alex Ristorante. ### Masseria cooking class A morning with a Pugliese chef at the working masseria. Orecchiette hand-pinched one by one, taralli baked in the wood oven, lunch under the pergola. ### The olive oil harvest at a family frantoio November and December. Pick olives in the morning, watch them go into the press in the afternoon, taste the green peppery new oil within hours. ### Cisternino sunset aperitivo The most beautiful of the Valle d'Itria white towns. A glass of Negroamaro on a piazza terrace at dusk, then dinner at Trattoria Bere Vecchie. ### Alberobello at dawn The trulli town before the day-trippers arrive. Coffee in the lower piazza, then a slow walk up the empty Rione Monti with the conical roofs against a pink sky. Travel Advisor ## Let our specialists *plan your trip* From the right villa to private chefs, boat charters, and bespoke experiences, we take care of every detail. [Email a travel advisor](https://villavacations.com/contact-us/) [Call 1 (800) 409-4346](tel:+18004094346) Beyond the Villa ## Day *trips* ### Lecce Ninety minutes south. The baroque centre, the Roman amphitheatre, dinner at Bros' or Le Quattro Spezierie. ### Matera (Basilicata) Ninety minutes northwest, across the border into Basilicata. The Sassi cave city, the Crypt of Original Sin, an overnight if you can. ### Bari An hour north. The old city of Bari Vecchia, the Basilica of San Nicola, hand-rolled orecchiette on the streets, and lunch on the Adriatic. ### Ostuni & the Valle d'Itria The white town at sunset, the cathedral, dinner at Osteria del Tempo Perso. ### Polignano a Mare & Monopoli The cliffside village of Polignano with its swimming caves, then Monopoli's tiny port for lunch at a trattoria. ### The Tremiti Islands A summer day trip from the Gargano. Boat across the Adriatic to one of the most pristine swimming spots in Italy. Climate ## Average *monthly highs* | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 54°F | 56°F | 60°F | 64°F | 71°F | 78°F | 84°F | 84°F | 78°F | 70°F | 62°F | 56°F | Source: long-term monthly averages for the region. Sea temperatures stay comfortable for swimming May through October. Where it is ## Puglia on the *map* 8 villas in Puglia. Tap a pin to see the villa; locations are approximate. [See all our villas on the map](https://villavacations.com/villa-map/). Travelers Ask ## Frequently asked *questions* Puglia is a long, narrow region — 400 kilometres from the Gargano headland in the north down to Santa Maria di Leuca at the tip of the heel — with two coastlines (Adriatic and Ionian) and a flat, sun-drenched interior that is one of the largest olive-oil producers in the world. The towns are unlike anywhere else in Italy. The whitewashed hilltowns of the Valle d'Itria — Ostuni, Locorotondo, Cisternino, Martina Franca — that look like Greek-island villages somehow planted in Apulian limestone. The trulli of Alberobello, cone-roofed stone houses that have been there since the 14th century. Polignano a Mare and Monopoli on the Adriatic cliffs. Lecce in the south, the '[Florence](https://villavacations.com/destinations/florence/) of the south', with its honey-stone baroque churches lit gold at sunset. Otranto and Gallipoli on the heel itself. The masserie are Puglia's defining stay. These are fortified farmhouses, four-foot-thick walls around a central courtyard, built in the 16th and 17th centuries against pirate raids. Many have been restored as villas, the best of them privately bookable, with pools cut into the centre of the courtyard and olive groves running to the horizon. The food is southern, sun-drenched, and pasta-and-vegetable-heavy. Orecchiette with broccoli rabe, burrata from Andria (where it was invented), focaccia barese, taralli, fresh anchovies from Polignano, swordfish from Gallipoli, Primitivo and Negroamaro wines that have been making producers in the north nervous for a decade. May, June, September, and early October are our favourite months in Puglia. The weather is warm and stable, the sea is comfortable for swimming, and the masserie are at their best. July and August are gorgeous but hot and busy; book early. November and December are the olive harvest, beautiful and quiet, with most masserie still open through mid-October. Puglia has a hot Mediterranean climate softened by the sea on three sides. Monthly highs run from around 54°F in January to 84°F in July and August. Swim weather is reliably May through October. Rainfall is low; even spring and autumn are mostly sunny. Orecchiette with broccoli rabe, burrata di Andria, focaccia barese, taralli, fresh anchovies, sea-urchin pasta, swordfish, capocollo di Martina Franca, and Primitivo and Negroamaro wines. Restaurants we book: Pashà and Casa Tua in Conversano, Bros' and Alex in Lecce, Antichi Sapori in Montegrosso (a one-Michelin-star institution), I Due Camini at Borgo Egnazia. Boat days on the Adriatic, masseria cooking classes, olive-oil tastings at family frantoi, evenings in the white towns, the baroque of Lecce, the trulli of Alberobello at dawn, the Matera Sassi (over the border in Basilicata), and beach days at Pescoluse and Punta Prosciutto. Ostuni (the queen of the white towns), Lecce (baroque jewel), Polignano a Mare (cliffside dramatic), Alberobello (trulli), Monopoli (working port town), Martina Franca (baroque and food), Otranto (the easternmost point of Italy), Gallipoli (Ionian beaches). Yes. Puglia is a large, spread-out region and most of the best stays are masserie deep in the countryside. A car is essential, or arrange private driver service through our concierge for full days out. Very good. The masserie are set up for families (pools, gardens, kitchens, often kid-friendly chefs), the beaches are shallow and clean, the towns are walkable and safe, and the food is friendly. Many of our most-loved Puglia bookings are multi-family. [See our full Italian Villa Rentals FAQ →](https://villavacations.com/italian-villa-rentals-faq/) Puglia — Reading ## From the *journal* TRIP INSPIRATION ### Large Villas in Chianti and Siena for 16 or More Guests FOR FAMILIES ### Tuscany Villas for Grandparents: Ground-Floor Bedrooms and Fewer Stairs ROMANCE ### Lake Como Villas for a 50th Birthday or a Small Wedding Explore ## Other *destinations* Each region is hand-picked, walked, and slept in by us first. See which one is calling. ### Amalfi *Coast* Costiera Amalfitana ### *Chianti* Classic Tuscany ### *Cortona* Under the Tuscan Sun ### *Florence* Renaissance Tuscany [See all destinations](https://villavacations.com/destinations/) --- Doorways Villa Vacations, Italian villa specialists since 1994. Book through a travel advisor: https://villavacations.com/contact-us/