With a private area beach, Hotel Masseria Fortificata Donnaloia is a restored farmhouse 250 metres from the seaside offering 27 premium rooms. The restaurant is a converted hay barn with roof terrace.
All the elegant rooms have wrought-iron beds. With antique furnishings, free WiFi and LCD TV, the rooms at the Masseria Donnaloia combine both traditional and modern styles. Each comes with air conditioning, and a bathroom with cosy bathrobes and slippers. Some rooms have a sea-view balcony.
The à la carte restaurant serves Puglia cuisine, such as mussels with rice and roast potatoes. The dining room has high, vaulted ceilings. Breakfast includes Italian coffee with local cheese and pastries. Guests can enjoy relaxing by the pool. Fitness lovers will appreciate the hotel’s gym and free bike hire.
A private beach area is available and includes a parasol and 2 deckchairs.The Fasano Zoosafari is 11 km away and you can reach Egnazia Aquapark in less than 10 minutes by car. Monopoli centre is 8 km from the hotel. Bari and Brindisi Airports are both a one-hour drive away, and the property can organise an airport shuttle service on request.
The Resort Hotel is located in the resort Masseria Donnaloia, where were found artifacts in clay ceramics reddish-brown, referable to the age of metals. The morphology of the area of Puglia, indeed, allowed very ancient settlements, in natural caves. In the second century d.c., Trajan was to want a faster route, comfortable and safe, the Via Appia, to reach Puglia and then Brindisi, to go to the East, from Rome 13/14 days, through a land of temperate climate from the sea. In Puglia, each approximately 10-15 Km, met the post stations, that were used to change horses, dining and accommodation of travelers. The road came in Puglia approached the sea of Barium (Bari), followed the coast and across the centers of Neapolis (Polignano) and I would say (Monopoli?) came to Gnathia (Egnazia).
Precisely 10 km of Egnazia, on a small hill overlooking the sea, it is layered in so many centuries, a settlement that, initially dug in the rock (Station sighting?), saw in later periods overlapping construction of different style. In this historic rural settlement of Puglia, was once the Resort Hotel Masseria Donnaloia.
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