Il Cortile

Meals are served on the ground floor, in the place once used to keep produce of family's farm, behind the entrance to a deep stone excavated cellar; guests can relax here in vaulted rooms, adorned by Mediterranean arches, among family antiques and comfortable sofas.

From here the access to the typically regional stone-floored double courtyard that gives the name to the complex. The surrounding storehouses were originally used to make wine: there are the entrances to the cool bedded rooms complemented by beautiful family antiques.

A big brown door opens into a charming little garden the “Giardinello delle Delizie“, the surviving nucleus of an old enclosure extended for two hectares; Sitsken , the Dutch hostess, is an expert in plants grown in green houses, sited in the family farm. She cares for this garden, rich with old Neapolitan plants: hedges of ruscus hypoglosum and camellia, citrus, jasmines, carpets of convalaria Japonica, bushes of calle, palms, bouganvillees and a pluricentenarian tree of magnolia grandiflora overhanging the whole building. Sitsken makes excellent marmalade with citrus fruits from the garden that can be enjoyed by guests; dinners are prepared according to the local and family traditions.