Tenuta Monacelle

A 12-hectare working estate above Monopoli where a restored hamlet of trulli and a historic masseria look out over silver olive groves and the Adriatic — the iconic Puglian image, kept far from the tourist trail.

Tenuta Monacelle is a genuine working agricultural estate where Mediterranean gardens meet a small village of trulli. Twelve restored rooms and suites — many inside traditional cone-roofed trulli — host up to 40 of your guests on-site, while weddings can welcome 20 to 150 across the gardens, the olive grove, the covered pavilion and a restored stone barn. The kitchen is farm-to-table, the wine list is rooted in Puglia, and the team is led by Nicola — whose attentiveness shows in 200+ Google reviews (4.6/5). For Canadian couples who want the trulli image they've been dreaming about, without the tourist version of it, this is the most honest answer in the region.