Single-family detached house via 25 Luglio 26, Centro, Andrano

What the houses of yesteryear share is undoubtedly the extraordinary ability to tell an ancient world through simple elements. The needs of domestic life, originally so immediate and instinctive, are tempered by an incredible attention to space and light, in a game of family intimacy that is hardly lacking in charm and balance. The best way to understand the meaning of this authentic and minimal beauty is to immerse yourself in the colored arms of the house located in via XXV Luglio, a stone's throw from the Medieval Castle of Andrano.

The factor that makes this house truly special it is the ability to surprise the visitor along the entire domestic journey, where each element seems to fuel the thrill of a truly unique and precious journey back in time. The main entrance is characterized by a wonderful star-vaulted room, a sort of dazzling control room from which to immediately grasp the distribution of the floor. On the south side, the dining room with corner fireplace outlines a comfortable and enveloping environment, instinctively projected towards the rear garden from which it draws depth of breath and light. A staircase on the left side leads to the upper floor, where you can appreciate a large room illuminated by a window in the middle and a generous hallway with a versatile nature, from which it is possible to reach a level terrace and the entire solar area of exclusive property with a suggestive view of the garden and the surrounding landscape.

The Levantine side of the house instead moves on the thread of memories and the colorful charm of the ancient cement tiles. The two rooms that open to the view are a compositional masterpiece able to excite and seduce, because the large squared vaults, bathed in daylight, seem to be daughters of the restless verses of Vittorio Bodini and the hidden spirit of the lime walls strip with I grace the volumes from any superfluous element, as if to empty the mind of useless thoughts. A window, suspended by a spell, converses passionately with oranges and wild flowers, under a vast blue sky that transforms an old disused staircase into a magical portal to who knows what worlds. You will find yourself in a garden with a long memory and it will be natural to imagine your summer evenings in the company of your dearest loved ones, because this natural space, so intimate and protected, looks like a large courtyard that is thirsty to be lived again. You will seem to see a large Salento table that comes alive with joy in the center of the patio in the evening, illuminated by candles and soft lights, while the scents and flavors of Mediterranean cuisine spread in the air.

If you think it's over here, you are wrong , because the property still reserves a surprise. In fact, on the evening side, a door, accompanied by a shy downspout and surmounted by a window with the sacredness of a rose window, opens onto a second residential nucleus of very ancient origins. A barrel-vaulted room carries with it the stratified signs of the large fireplace that dominates the back wall, with the mangers and wall niches that tell of a family life dedicated to work and close contact with livestock. It takes just enough time to cross this incredible work of the time to reach the rear courtyard, equipped with an independent entrance from the side alley, where there are two other barrel-vaulted rooms, with a last fireplace immersed in the silence and in the plot of past generations. Here time seems to have stopped, like the numbers on the old single-phase contactor hanging on the wall, a rare and precious opportunity to rediscover the beauty of a simple life.

Andrano is a quiet village in the lower Salento with a medieval heart. Located on the Adriatic coast, the town boasts a very ancient history, closely linked to that of Otranto and the Turkish invasion of 1480, without forgetting the important Byzantine presence in the area at the beginning of the millennium. You will be lucky enough to be just 3 km from the sea of Marina di Andrano (Grotta Verde) and Castro, 19 km from Otranto, 44 km from Lecce and 100 km from Brindisi Airport.

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