Green Oasis Estate near Lecce

The estate sleeps up to twenty-four guests across twelve individually designed en-suite double bedrooms, ten doubles and two large suites, one bedroom with its own private outdoor hot tub. Each room is a world of its own, with whitewashed vaulted ceilings, hand-embroidered bedspreads, antiques and bespoke made-to-measure furniture in vivid Mediterranean colour. Every bathroom is designed as carefully as the room it serves.

Days move between water and shade. A long heated pool lies among the olive trees with hammocks and loungers along its edge, and two outdoor hot tubs sit close by. A full spa brings a hammam, a Finnish sauna, balneotherapy, a treatment room set in the green and a room for oriental massage. There is a Technogym fitness room, a games room with indoor and outdoor billiards, a five-a-side pitch and a basketball court, a professional yoga lounge and quiet corners for meditation. Above it all, a rooftop terrace with its own bar catches the Salento sunset.