The “Masseria Trotta”, once “Masseria S. Michele”, is located in the Fasano countryside, Giardinelli district, in the area between Fasano and the Laureto hill.
The Masseria consists of an original main body of the building on two floors datable between 1600 and 1700 with following XIX century extensions. It is recognizable for the characteristic lateral tower that distinguishes it from the others of the area.
It is located in a thriving centuries-old uliveto (olive grove) with intensive cultivation integrated with short-trunked olive trees, partly flat and partly terraced with the typical dry walls. Small wood of holm oaks, carob trees, fruit trees and Mediterranean undergrowth areas are scattered in the uliveto.
Reaching the masseria you find a large open square with a threshing floor with an old chapel formerly consecrated to S.Michele. On the right there is the main body of the building surrounded by the typical trullo stone oven, citrus grove gardens and old shelters for animals.
The first floor was and is now a house and the ground floor is an olive-mill. In the restored area there are two apartments for the Bed and Breakfast and in the not restored one there are the old millstone and the housing niches of the old wood presses.