Our Farm
One family, one red earth, twenty years of history. We cultivate Salento with respect and passion.
Once Upon a Time, an Urban Farmhouse
It all began in 2002 with a small pizzeria in the palazzo on Via Del Tufo. Year by year the project evolved: a vegetable garden, then fields, then guest rooms, then workshops.
Today A Locanda Tu Marchese is a fully-fledged agricultural estate — century-old olive trees, a synergistic vegetable garden, legume fields and a small orchard — all within a few kilometres of the centre of Matino.
"Once upon a time there was a family that tended the land and opened its front door. That family is us."
Synergistic and Organic Farming
No pesticides, no chemical fertilisers. The red soil of Salento has everything it needs.
Olive Groves
Century-old trees of the ogliarola salentina and cellina di Nardò varieties. Oil is cold-pressed in the first days of October.
Synergistic Vegetable Garden
The garden follows the seasons and the lunar calendar — tomatoes, aubergines, peppers, chicory, turnip tops and much more.
Legumes
Cicerchie, fava beans, lentils and chickpeas — the legumes of Salento that once fed entire peasant families.
Orchard
Figs, prickly pear, pomegranates and almond trees — fruit that has grown spontaneously in Salento for centuries.
Take a Piece of Salento Home
Our products are available directly at the farmhouse. Limited quantities — everything is produced by hand, on a small scale.
