Critabianca

A six-room estate in the deep Salento countryside, owned by Alessandro Ghione, with citrus groves and an organic vegetable garden outside the windows, and candlelit orchard-to-table dinners.

A country estate in the Cutrofiano countryside, a few kilometres from Galatina in the deep Salento. Six rooms, each with a distinct color palette, opening onto citrus groves and stone terraces. Dinners are slow, local, candlelit; the orchard-to-table menu pulls from the family's own citrus, fruit trees, and organic vegetable garden, paired with a local Salento wine list (Negroamaro, Primitivo) rather than house production. Cooking classes are on request, never on display. Six guest rooms in a working country house, which is the whole of it. The warmer choice for a quiet Salento base.

• Best for — couples

• Neighborhood — Cutrofiano · Salento countryside · 6 rooms · Ghione-family-owned · adults & 12+ only
• Rooms — 6
• Price — €€€
• 6 rooms only
• Orchard-to-table dinners

From the HALA guide, reviewed August 2026.

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