A truly romantic villa with stunning new swimming pool for 2024 set in three and a half acres of delightful Italian garden. Within walking distance of the historic city of Oria which really comes alive in the summer evenings with it's many 'feste' and the famous "Torneo dei Rioni" in August. The villa provides very comfortable, spacious and traditional Puglian style accommodation for one or two families who are looking for a relaxing country retreat with all the necessary amenities nearby. This simple yet stylish villa provides comfortable, traditional and spacious accommodation for up to eight people in four double/twin bedrooms, and is especially suited for family groups. Dating from around 1850, it has been extended and modernised with artisan features such as Italian Vietri ceramics and Tuscan chestnut doors. Recent improvements include an updated kitchen which provides excellent amenities while preserving traditional artisan methods of construction. A brand new 6x12 metre swimming pool has been recently completed for the 2024 season, featuring a 3 square metre shallow water tanning ledge at one end, where young children can enjoy supervised use of the pool. The rest of the pool is a constant 1.4 metre depth, which makes it ideal for exercise swimming as well as recreations like water volley-ball. The pool is surrounded by a sunbathing terrace, with a large shaded pergola at one end, creating a georgeous space for poolside relaxation.n in sympathy with the origins of the villa. Air conditioning is provided in all the bedrooms and in the living room and a modern energy efficient solar/heat pump system ensures plenty of hot water at all times. Water is supplied from an artesian well with filtration to provide a clean and safe supply in the kitchen for cooking and drinking. A satellite link provides a stable internet connection and Wifi is available throughout the villa. A large desk in the ingresso makes a convenient working area if you require it. A large courtyard containing a terrace and citrus garden surrounds the South and West sides of the villa, creating a spacious outdoor dining area where guests can relax in peace and tranquillity. Two lockable gates make the courtyard a very secure space for young children to play outdoors. Shaded dining is provided for both large and small groups and diners will enjoy the intoxicating scent of bougainvillea, hibiscus and jasmine, mixed with citrus tones, especially in the evening. The grounds are a special feature of Villa dell’Amicizia, containing a wide variety of mature trees and tropical plants that create zones with distinctly different ambience within the gardens. Guests are encouraged to roam the grounds and enjoy the natural tranquillity, generally only interrupted by birdsong or the wind soughing through the trees. For a diversion, children can play our I-Spy Cats game, to spot the 12 cats that inhabit our grounds. The gardens contain many fruit trees and guests are welcome to pick the fruit when ripe, which, depending on the time of the year, includes lemon, orange, kumquat, fig, persimmon, apple, pear, cherry, apricot, plum, prickly pear, quince, Chinese date, pomegranate, mulberry and walnut. There are over 200 olive trees in our grounds, mostly young, but also some grand old gnarled specimens. For those with some energy to burn, a lap of the vine walkway and driveway is exactly 400 metres and there is a table tennis table and a basket ball hoop for added entertainment.