美しく完全に復元されたトゥルッロカントリーハウス、大きなプール、wifi

We are three London-based university friends, all professionals, who decided to buy our own piece of Italian sunshine and set out on the journey to find and restore our own trullo. We worked with a friend who is an Italian architect, with a home of her own in Puglia, who had a vision for a major restoration that would combine the simple beauty of a trullo with the practicalities of a home suitable for families and friends. After a year's work Trullo Cipresso was finished and we have been enjoying it ever since. A couple of years later we added the pool, which is a real boon. We have young children, who love the pool and the local beaches, and have also had many friends to stay, of all ages.

Having been to Puglia several times and hugely enjoyed it, when some friends bought a house in the same area we found the idea hard to resist and took the plunge. We scoured the area and looked at dozens of trulli, but found most were either too small to make sense for a couple of families holidaying together, or were modern buildings without the trullo's soul. When we found Trullo Cipresso we could see the potential straight away, and with the skills of Giulia, our architect, we set about the transformation. We loved the fact it was in the country but still close to town, and an easy drive from the beaches as well as the cultural sites. Sitting in the courtyard in the evening with a glass of local wine, a bowl of olives, and freshly cooked fish from the oven in the warmth of the summer Puglian air, we are very happy we took the plunge.

The first thing that struck us was the beautiful courtyard, which is of old stone and partly shaded by a mass of trees including a huge mulberry, an apricot and a cherry. There are flowers throughout the summer including roses, wisteria and a magnificent bougainvillea which is a wonderful purple in high summer. Inside the house the layout was far more user friendly than any other house we had considered, with the rooms logically laid out and all internally connected apart from the en suite guest bedroom across the courtyard, which could provide a self-contained area of its own. Above all we loved the nine magnificent trullo cones, both from the outside and looking up from several of the rooms to the exposed stone interiors.