The best Farmhouse in San Vito dei Normanni is Farmhouse “La Masseria Terrazze di Serranova”, for most of people Salento is that place where ancient olive trees, dry stone walls, farms, coastal towers that watch over seas of changing colors draw the landscape. That segment of the province of Brindisi that includes the municipalities of Ostuni, San Vito dei Normanni, San Michele Salentino, Carovigno, Ceglie Messapica, Villa Castelli and Fasano is Salento, Alto Salento. We like to think that the heart of this territory is the cycle of ancient olive trees that leads the visitor from the sea of Torre Guaceto to San Vito dei Normanni passing through the Serranova village, a magical place, with centenary trees that appear as ghosts in the evening dancing. Farmhouse “Le Terrazze di Serranova” is located a few kilometers from San Vito dei Normanni, home of the same Castle of Carovigno. In the historic center, the castle owes its name to the family that still resides there. The Earl bring you during the visit: thirty rooms from that of “the audiences”, where the people were received, to the “Dame” room with ceramic floors coming from Vietri, collection of corsages of the ‘800. Inside an enchanted world, outside the people who stop to chat outside in the square dedicated to Leonardo Leo, a musician of the ‘700 born here, and several times film set. In outside the tradition of “rezza”, curtains made from parallel wooden rods that are on each door to protect from the sun. But to say “Rezza” also means the stage of loves, of stolen looks because the tent is a way to talk badly without being seen, to observe. So in mid-August the streets of the “rezzica” are celebrated in the narrow streets and everyone, behind the tents, is allowed to say everything: gossip runs faster than the web.
Not far from the farm house le terrazze di Serranova, there is the crypt of San Biagio, in the locality “Jannuzzo”, a byzantine sanctuary, in the middle of an ancient monastic settlement, built inside a cave dug in the rocky bank. It preserves a pictorial cycle with Christological scenes, and dated 1196: the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Fugue in Egypt, the Presentation in the Temple, the Entrance to Jerusalem. The walls preserve scenes from the life of the titular saint, episodes taken from the apocryphal Gospels and portraits of saints from the eastern and western church, San Biagio, San Nicola, Sant’Andrea, San Giorgio, San Giacomo, San Giovanni, San Silvestro, Santo Stefano, St. Demetrius. To reach it starting from S. Vito dei Normanni towards Brindisi, take the S.S. 16 for about 6 km until the intersection with the provincial road to Serranova and after about 1 km take the provincial road to Masseria Jannuzzo. After passing the railway line, on the right, you can see the Masseria and immediately the rock complex.
