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Relax Puglia Limited values its beneficial alliance with home owners, suppliers, support staff and personnel. Together, through our holiday rental management services, we inspire travellers, like us, from around the world, to the southernmost region of Italy, in Puglia, because it is magical, fascinating and unforgettable.
Relax Puglia Limited, operational offices in Cisternino, Puglia (Apulia), has been welcoming visitors to this magical and richly colourful region of Italy and providing Puglia vacation rentals since 2010; providing travellers with an authentic and memorable experience of the local life as well as offering a showcase of holiday villas to rent in Puglia.
"We have had a wonderful time here in Puglia and have especially loved our stay at Villa Perego which is absolutely perfect, we cannot fault it in any way at all. We could quite easily stay here for another week or 2 but unfortunately I didn’t bring enough books 😟
Thanks again for all of your help, we will definitely be recommending Villa Perego.
Oh and we absolutely loved Locorotondo 💕
Enjoy the rest of your Summer x
Peter - Villa Perego (August 2025)"
Relax Puglia provides a range of additional services to make your stay more relaxed, comfortable and enjoyable. On your arrival, we can arrange for a food basket to be waiting for you. Why not spoil yourselves with your own, in-house local chef, or a luxurious massage in the comfort of your villa. We have a wide range of tours and activities to choose from and we can provide transfers and taxis to help you get around.
The Dolce Vita is from coast to coast; from the Adriatic to the Ionian, between Otranto and Gallipoli. If you wish to discover the key to local artisan excellence, include a stopover in one or more of the hamlets and villages that trip along the coastline, topple on the summits of hilltops or make a splash in to the small bays and lagoons.
A selection of articles that explore the region of Puglia: its wonderful countryside and coastline, its rich history, its fascinating culture, its delicious food and wine and, of course, its warm and welcoming people...
Manduria is a city in the province of Taranto, south east Italy. The ancient site is built on an old Messapian settlement, from which encircling Greek walls can still be seen in the Old Town. This makes Manduria a popular tourist destination with its many beaches, churches and famous wine grapes.
Any visitor to the city will find a maze of streets dotted with cream-coloured homes and fantastic examples of Baroque architecture. Like many places in Taranto, the city is characterised by an Old Town in the centre of a bustling city.
The Old Town features a 12th-century Medieval Jewish ghetto, two churches and a castle. Megalithic and Messapian fortifications can be seen dotted everywhere, as well as the Sant'Angelo gate, a mid-17th-century medieval portal that used to lead into the city. Walking through this brings you to the city’s ghetto, Ghetto Ebraico; the park of the Centro Storico di Manduria; the ancient Massacpiche Walls and the intriguing Calvaire building, where there is a huge artwork made from broken ceramics.
Away from the urbanised city, which has a population of over 30,000, visitors can enjoy many beaches and nature reserves nearby, such as the incredibly picturesque and clean peninsula of Spiaggia de San Pietro in Bevagna. Along the coast towards Taranto lie many beach resorts.
Food in Manduria is the same as you would expect for the region, however the city is well-known for its Manduria carosello melon. This is consumed all year round but typically eaten fresh at the end of a meal or added to a puree or sauce to complement Mandurian tomatoes.
If you need a drink to wash that down with, you are in the right place. Manduria is the home of the famous Primitivo di Manduria grape, one of the oldest grape varieties in the world. Notably, Primitivo has the same generic makeup as the American Zinfandel which, it has been suggested, derives from the original Puglian grape.
Manduria’s long history stretches all the way back to Magna Grecia. The first event of note for Manduria occurred in 338 BC when the King of Sparta died within the city walls fighting against the Italic populations.
For many years, the Messapians and Spartans contested control of the region. After the King’s death, both groups merged to fight the increasing onslaught of the Hannibal-led Romans. In 212 BC, however, the city was destroyed and its inhabitants were sold into slavery.
After being subsequently rebuilt and destroyed several times, the city was plundered twice, once after the Romans ultimately fell to the Ostrogoths in 547 AD and another time in 977 AD by invading Saracens and Turks.
For seven centuries the city was known by the name Casalnuovo, before reclaiming its actual name in the 1700s.
The city’s coat of arms is an olive tree growing from the middle of a well. This is due to Roman author Pliny the Elder’s ancient description of a beautiful city with an olive tree next to the fountain Fonte Pliniano and a well that never runs out of water.
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