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7 Via Scipione Petrarolo, Ostuni
7 - 72017 Ostuni (BR)
La Sommità
- Style
- Designer den
- Setting
- Up-and-coming Ostuni
La Sommità has cool, clean design lines but its massive walls and ramparts give this converted 16th-century palace a palpable sense of history.
Need to know
- Rooms
- Ten, including three suites.
- Rates
- €250–€600, including breakfast.
- Check-out
- Midday, but flexible.
- Facilities
- Modern spa under vaulted stone celings, in-room Internet access.
- Poolside
- There is no pool at La Sommità, but guests can ask reception for a pass to a nearby beach.
- Children
- Are welcome, although the building isn’t really suitable for very young children.
- Also
- Horse riding, cycling and cookery courses can be arranged. Small pets are welcome.
In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- Ask for a room with a terrace and a view out to sea. The suites are much larger and have big windows with great views.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- Located beneath two massive vaulted stone ceilings, the restaurant also has tables outside in the walled Spanish garden. Fresh local produce is served, including fish cooked to perfection, great pasta and wines.
- Dress code
- As relaxed as everything else here.
- Top table
- In the garden, among the orange blossom and olive trees.
- Room service
- Restaurant menu available until 10.30pm.
- Hotel bar
- The subterranean wine bar has a good selection of regional and international wines. You can sip a drink anywhere you choose here. The castle ramparts are the perfect place for a sunset aperitif.
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Local restaurants
A two-minute walk from the hotel, Osteria del Tempo Perso on Via Gaetano Tanzarella Vitale (+39 0831 303 320) offers traditional Puglian cuisine and wine in its grotto-like dining rooms decked with traditional farming implements. There’s a modern flair to the traditional dishes at Osteria Piazzetta Cattedrale (+39 0831 335 026), set in a whitewashed former monastery just by the cathedral. The restaurant prides itself on its selection of excellent and unusual cheeses that can be matched from the comprehensive wine list.Local cafes
Watch the passeggiata with an aperitif at Café Centrale in Ostuni’s Piazza della Libertà.
For a full list of bars and restaurants in Puglia, click here
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