PALAZZO DE MORI

To who loves the sea and the charm of ancient villages and of history, De Mori offers a welcoming and familiar hospitality with service of Bed and Breakfast.

Palazzo de Mori is an ancient and noble residence with more storeys, with patio of entrance paved in stone and old covers of flat tiles. The house has been renovated with a careful repair obtaining a welcoming bed and breakfast painstaking in every particular. From the ample balcony characterized by the ancient parapet of columns patterned in stone, you can appear at the sea, enjoying a evocative panoramic sight on the bay of Otranto and on the small port.
Palazzo de Mori is situated on the bastions of Otranto, in the embroidery of the narrow and winding tiny street of Otranto old centre, near from the little Byzantine church of San Pietro, from the aragonese castle and from cathedral known for its wonderful mosaic.

Storia del Palazzo

Palazzo de Mori is the ancient residence belonged to Leondari family which took the name the old way that leads to it (residence) from, through embroidery of the narrow ways of Otranto old centre.
More properly it (residence) become to the noble Michele Leondari, fallen during the dramatic Saracen invasion in 1480 and taken back on the marbles which remember the 800 martyrs fallen on the Hill of Minerva and low reliefs of the monument of the seafront.

Otranto

Otranto, called “Porta d'Oriente” (Gate of East) as well, has a suggestive medieval village, outstretched over the sea and surrounded by old walls which, together with the Aragonese castle, protected from the raids of pirates.
In 1480 Otranto suffered the legendary and dramatic Turkish invasion which culminated in the decapitation, on the Hill of Minerva, of 800 martyrs whose remains, cult object, are kept in the ancient Cathedral.

In addition to the beauties of the old centre, agreeablely restored and rich in pleasant locals, the coast is splendid which, after the summer, empty of beach umbrellas and tourists, starts being again wild and striking.

Long white beaches, luxuriant pinewoods, maquis, the lakes Alimini and the striking rocky cliff southward, toward Santa Maria of Leuca, frame to the splendid sea.