Need to know
Rooms
Six, including one suite.
Check–Out
11am; check-in is from 4.30pm to 7.30pm. Later check-in and check-outs are available for €50, subject to availability and approval from the hotel.
More details
Rates include breakfast, served at the foot of the chapel bell tower in the oldest part of the mansion.
Also
Afternoons can be low key at this one-of-a-kind boutique stay, where reception hours vary and staff may be a phone call away: if you’re planning a quiet one by the pool, make sure you have your own bar snacks to hand.
Please note
The hotel’s national identification code (CIN) is IT075078B400060151
Hotel closed
Closed during winter, from early November until just before Easter, with the exception of the Christmas and New Year period.
At the hotel
Free WiFi, swimming pool. In rooms: air-conditioning, Smart TV, minibar, tea and coffee making facilities, refillable steel water flask.
Our favourite rooms
Paying homage to ancient Roman building techniques, most of the bedrooms at I Tre Bacili have high vaulted ceilings and all use traditional cocciopesto rendering techniques. Sizable works of contemporary art create colourful focal points against clean, minimalist interiors. If you really want to live like a Caesar, go for the vast Barone Suite. Big enough to get lost in, it includes a star-vaulted parlour room that fairly pops with colour, from the designer armchair’s striking menagerie motif to the incredible ceiling fresco by artist Vincenzo d’Alba, all turmeric yellows, chilli reds and sunset oranges.
Poolside
Lemon trees and towering dry stone walls make the main courtyard one of the mansion’s most evocative spaces. Bonus: this is where you’ll find the pool (open from 1 May to 30 September, 8.30am to noon and 4pm to 7.30pm), flanked by loungers and parasols. The pool solarium is also open from 8.30am to 7.30pm.
Spa
There’s no spa, but massage treatments and yoga classes can be organised at the mansion with advance notice. A sauna and Turkish bath are planned for 2025.
Packing tips
English isn’t widely spoken down here in the rural heel of Italy’s boot, so an Italian phrasebook is essential if you want to successfully conjure up lunch with ice-cold vino in a remote hillside village. And, believe us, you do.
Children
I Tre Bacili is an adults-only residence.
Sustainability efforts
Natural building materials including dry stone and cocciopesto rendering – as favoured by the ancient Romans – have made for a sensitive restoration of the three 18th-century buildings that comprise I Tre Bacili. Modern gadgetry plays a similarly eco-friendly role: solar panels and thermal wall insulation keep underfloor heating and cooling systems efficient, while LED lighting and sensors are used throughout. Plastic use is about as welcome here as a mosquito in your mojito. For that reason, olive-based toiletries (from local producers, natch) come in ceramic dispensers and steel bottles are provided to refill at your leisure with water filtered direct from the Apulian Aqueduct.