Masseria Magliano

Atika’s radar picks up a solid, foursquare presence: Masseria Magliano. This is a fortified farmhouse of the sort that dots the Italian countryside, built not for show but for self-sufficiency and defence. Two volumes are fused together here. The older, rectangular block keeps its guard up with corner towers on the western front and a larger, taller semi-tower to the east. Its main facade is a composed affair: a stone portal, a balcony with brick trim and iron railings, and a circular oculus set into the pediment above.

Inside, the ground floor, hall, kitchen, storeroom, is vaulted in stone; the upper floor, with its bedrooms and cupboards, has wooden ceilings. The building was clearly reworked in the early 1900s, when a brick annexe was added to the north, linked to the original block on both levels. A small, detached oven building stands to the south-west, a quiet reminder of the self-contained life these masserie once sustained.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.