B&B Le Sei Conche Gemini. A small square, a 17th-century church, a building with a finely decorated balustrade and, a few steps down the road, a nineteenth-century mansion with barn, granary, and wine cellar carved out of rock.
Welcome to Gemini (Ugento), sixty kilometers from Lecce, in the most authentic Salento, awaiting to be discovered. Stay at the B&B Le Sei Conche, a house with a timeless appeal. The small village of Byzantine origin is located at the crossroads of two ancient roads: one connecting it to Ugento, the important Messapian city of which it is a hamlet, and the other leading to the Ionian coast, between golden beaches and crystal-clear waters.

Here begins the journey across the Lecce hinterland, nestled between countryside and sea, history and myth, flavors and fragrances.
Live without hurry, savor slowly.

A quiet and relaxing dwelling with the charm of a bygone era, in Gemini, on the outskirts of Ugento. A small street, Via Chiesa, which flows onto Piazza Regina Elena and is surrounded by the village symbols: the menhir, the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi, adjacent to the Bishop’s Palace, and sixteenth-century Palazzo Macrì, once property of the Gigli family, featuring a beautiful eighteenth-century portal, surmounted by a finely decorated balustrade. The air exudes a history that began centuries ago: from the Byzantine fortifications to Roman occupation and then the period of greatest development in the fifteenth century, when this town became a refuge for bishops fleeing from Ugento, besieged by the Turks in the 1700s, the time in which the Church of St. Francis was built.

Le Sei Conche is perfect if you love history, ancient stones and the mood of a bygone age. It is more than 200 years old and one of the few houses in the hamlet that has not undergone any alterations from its construction. The plaques and inscriptions engraved on its mighty walls leave a clear trace of the house’s origins: the old stable and the granary date back to the beginning of the eighteenth century, the residence to 1881 and the accessory structure with terrace (lamia) to the early 1900s. The ancient farmhouse on three levels, with four rooms with traditional Salento-style roof, fireplaces, niches, barn, granary and cellar, has been restored in keeping with original techniques and materials, as well as historical-environmental landscape and local culture.

The typical Salento architecture has been preserved, but it has been redesigned in volumes and proportions and reinterpreted in contemporary style: a simple, essential style that preserves tradition, though revisiting it with original objects and furnishings, thanks to the direction of Engineer Patrizia D’Ambrosio. The property’s name was inspired by the basement, completely carved out in the rock, which was used to preserve food, bottle wine and store olive oil: along one of its walls are carved out six concave niches where traditional food-containing “capase” (terracotta amphorae) and wine bottles were stored: this is where the name Le Sei Conche comes from.

Codice Identificativo Struttura (CIS): LE07509062000020367