Breakfast is served from 8:00 to 10:00 am with fresh local products.
Pets are not allowed. Inside the structure smoke in permitted only in
the outside terrace.
Accepted payments: Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, Pago BANCOMAT.
Private bathroom, complimentary toiletries, hair dryer, weekly change of linen and daily cleaning.
Starting from €60
Private bathroom, complimentary toiletries, hair dryer, weekly change of linen and daily cleaning.
Starting from €60
Private bathroom, complimentary toiletries, hair dryer, weekly change of linen and daily cleaning.
Starting from €60
The Structure
On the main square of Gioia del Colle, in the heart of Apulia, an elegant building made in 1800 contains Casa Niné, an innovative B&B inspired by the principles of sustainability and creativity.
The spaces are large and comfortable, enclose the authentic taste of the Mediterranean tradition, revisited and enriched by modernity and originality of furnishings, all handmade. The building was
completely renovated in 2015 with care and attention that are reserved to a space that holds the best memories of his childhood.
The young owners, Sebastiano and Mariella, manage Casa Niné with passion and enthusiasm, creating a
warm, family atmosphere that will make you feel at home at all times.
The terrace of Casa Nine faces the characteristic main square of Gioia del Colle. A cozy space, family and elegant simplicity, that you can share at any time of the day with other guests. The terrace is the ideal location to relax, chat, enjoy a drink or have breakfast.
The shared kitchen, comfortable and very spacious, with a fridge, microwave and hob, is at your disposal at any time of the day. Here you can also enjoy a hearty breakfast, especially in winter, when temperatures do not allow you to use the rooftop terrace.
Casa Niné has three rooms. The Chamber 1 retro charm with a double bed, the Chamber 2 with a romantic four-poster beds and floor century, the Chamber 3 with a double, which is inspired by the tradition of rural Puglia. All rooms are equipped with smart TV from where you can surf the internet, wi - fi and a private bathroom.
Driven by a passion for sustainable design, the owners have self-built most of the furnishings of Casa Niné, with the constant presence of professionals of the trade. Eco-design objects, made with recycled materials, are on sale and are the perfect integration of the memory of Puglia and modern materials.
The rich breakfast buffet, as much as possible, prepared with local products in Km 0 and organic fruit. Everything is carefully selected to guarantee the authenticity and quality of the products. At the explicit request, you can also make a shopping list and receive it directly to Casa Nine.
A House Nine reign supreme and the delicate beauty of flowers reassuring. The elegant floral arrangements are designed and produced with care by Mariella, the owner, a young fan of flower design. At your explicit request, you can also request to Mariella a course to learn this fascinating art.
The first mozzarella were produced at the farms for family use.
Subsequently, from the 40s of the last century, mozzarella and other dairy products, handmade in dairies with milk from cows raised in the Brown-Alpine
farms in Gioia, invaded, with a growing development, local markets, regional and national.
Currently dairy products of Gioia del Colle can be purchased and enjoyed in almost types of Italian
cities, now representing the pride of the national dairy production.
The Primitivo of Gioia del Colle received the DOC (controlled designation of origin) in 1987 and currently is produced and bottled by several local companies. It was also created a voluntary Consortium
for the protection and enhancement of the wines DOC "Gioia del Colle" participating copn own stand at major industry events. Primitivo is obtained from grapes of a vine selected and cultivated also in neighboring
municipalities and the province of Taranto.
For the strong and robust (also 18 to 20 degrees) was used in the past as well as a blending wine. Wine primitive D.O.C. Gioia del Colle were awarded
the following awards:
Puglia is a region that provides a habitat for several crops, among which the olive trees, wheat and vines. The coastal strip is the area with a special vocation to olive, that expresses five DOP and one third of the national
production of olive oil.
Moreover, Puglia is also distinguished by the high production of wheat, that have long been considered the "breadbasket of Italy".
This production expresses
its excellence in handmade pasta and the famous bread of Altamura PDO, dark and tasty product of popular wisdom. Of great value is also the fruit and vegetable production,
including the famous turnip tops, the basic ingredient of a dish famous.
Finally, we should mention the countless DOC that certify the high quality of wine production in Puglia,
excellent even in the wide variety of types.
The strength of agriculture in Puglia is the wine. The vine, in Puglia, is the favorite of the peasant culture and is, perhaps, the greatest source of wealth. The most extensive vineyards of
Italy are gathering on the lower terraces of the Murgia, in the San Severo (Foggia) and in the Salento.
The grapes that produce these lands appears on the tables in Italian and foreign big bunches sugar or transformed
into wines of Puglia as famous white wines of San Severo, the wines of Cerignola and Locorotondo as red wines of Barletta, Trani, of Santeramo in Colle and Gioia del Colle.
And, yet they
are wines of Puglia, the Malvasia of the Leccese, the asprigni Cape Santa Maria di Leuca, the liqueur wines Muscat and Aleatico. Today Apulia has 25 wines with denomination of origin of which 52
red wines, 28 white wines, 22 rosé wines 17 sweet and / or liqueur and sparkling wines 9.
The oil , typical of Puglia, was also used to power lamps and lanterns; confirming that we are the findings of a number of ships sunk in the Mediterranean olive oil. The oil of Puglia that is produced
is strictly virgin (virgin olive oil, with impeccable taste, acidity does not exceed 1 g. Per 100 g.).
The extra virgin olive oil from Puglia, depending on the olives from which it is produced, has various
features.
In Puglia the recognition DOP (controlled designation of origin) was given to four types of oil products in many parts of the region; Dauno, Land of Bari, Brindisi Hills, Terra
D'Otranto. These areas are further divided into eleven sub depending on the production area.
Stood at about 360 meters above sea level, Gioia del Colle, with its 28,017 inhabitants, it is situated midway between the Ionian Sea and the Adriatic. The location of particular prestige for the roads, since prehistoric times has given it a central role as a point of confluence and economic, commercial and cultural.
Different people have inhabited from the Neolithic period on its territory, leaving significant traces of their passage, now evident in the dolmen cemeteries diMasseria of Porto and in the excavations carried out in the areas of Castelluccia and Holy Mola. In the Byzantine period it outlines the first urban form in the current site of the city (of St. Nicholas suburb).
The monument, built in the Byzantine era with the Norman Riccardo Siniscalco d'Altavilla, in the twelfth century, and even more with Frederick II of Swabia, on his return from the Crusade (1228-1229), he took on the forms that still can be seen today, after restoration Pantaleo (1907-1909) and De Vita ( 1969-1974).
Inside, a vast and harmonious courtyard, overlooked by the monumental oven room with access to the Empress prison, scene of a grim as charming legend. Here Frederick II would have locked Bianca Lancia accusing her of treason and here the woman loved by the Emperor would partoritoManfredi, making self-sacrifice.
The Mother Church was built in the late eleventh century by Riccardo Siniscalco and dedicated to St. Peter. In 857 the building was heavily damaged following a massive earthquake. The reconstruction work was completed in 1983. In 1942 also collapsed the eighteenth-century bell tower, rebuilt in reinforced concrete, was equipped with electrically operated bells.
For centuries dedicated to Santa Maria Maggiore, the church keeps people above all need the cult of St. Philip Blacks, who attributed miracles that occurred during earthquakes and famines of the past centuries.
The original nucleus of the theater was built by the first half of the XIX century and designed by the Engineer Felice Ravillon. However its final resting place, was slow to come and only in 1899 thanks to the projects of the Engineer Vittorio Chiaia work ended with an excellent layout of the exterior and a refined interior of the auditorium of the three tiers of boxes, following the model of theaters of Puglia the late nineteenth century.
After the second war, the theater was used as a cinema, but recently has regained its former glory thanks to the restoration of the façade and the stage and the restoration of the three tiers of boxes, allowing them to host an intense theatrical activities, music and culture.
The ground floor of the castle areas are home to the National Archaeological Museum , which collects the finds (from the fourth to the second century BC) discovered in the archeological site of Monte Sannace: Geometric vases, vases with red figures and Gnatia, statuettes and tintinnabula (rattles), weapons and bronze objects, domestic utensils.
Ticket open every day of the year from 8.30 am till 7.15 pm (phone 0039.080.3481305).
The tower house, dating from the fifteenth century, was probably built on a former medieval fortress, used as a lookout post and hunting of marsh birds (on the terrace there are openings for launching projectiles).
The building, about fifteen meters high, is marked by two stone cornices and looks particularly elegant in the highest part . Here, in fact, it's pretty obvious the Renaissance style.
It contains a rich testimony of rare and fascinating objects , even large , what was the rural culture : customs, traditions and crafts.
It is located in G. Di Vittorio street, near the Sacre Coeur church. (Collection MD Vito Santoiemma)
The distillery Paolo Cassano ranks among the most significant monuments of industrial archeology in Puglia. Its established historical importance and its perfect geometry enhance the nature of the recent restoration aimed at its preservation. In the year 1891 Paolo Cassano purchased the first machine for distillation.
Later he bought others, all the cutting edge for the time, by a firm in Milan specialized in the field . labels were found in the Old Black Rum sold in Jamaica and Igea liquor. The label of cognac Fides, the most famous enterprise product Cassano, reproduces the emblem of joy and a symbol of Italian Distilleries, which Cassano was the consortium.
The center of Monte Sannace is one of the biggest settlements of Peucetia. Inhabited since the beginning of the seventh century BC, is flourishing throughout the IV and III BC, is totally abandoned at the end of the third century BC, after Hannibal wars. The site is located 5 km away from Gioia del Colle towards Putignano-Egnazia.
The town is named, perhaps to be identified with the city of Thuriae spoken of the sources, however, they indicate that as a city "of Salento". The whole town is surrounded by four concentric walls circuits, mostly still visible.
It stands on Monte Rotondo , about 5 km from Gioia. It was built in 1309 by the Archbishop of Bari Romualdo and became part of the fief of Monte Sannace, where already stood another church dedicated to Sant'Angelo.
Today the church of SS. Annunziata with the surrounding land, are owned by the Mother Church of Joy. It's tradition of ancient date, that the first Sunday after Easter, on Thursday and the second Sunday in Monte Rotondo, held a religious festival capestre with precession of the image of Our Lady and comparizi promises.
The city is known worldwide for historians Sassi, recognized in 1993 by UNESCO World Heritage (first southern Italian site to receive such recognition)
Matera is among the city decorated for Valor for
the War of Liberation it was awarded the Silver Medal for Valor for the sacrifices of its people during the Second World War, being the first city of the South to rise up in arms against fascism.
The trulli (from the late greek, dome) are ancient constructions in stone to dry, conical, the typical and unique proto origins of central and southern Puglia. Although in the developing areas of the trulli they come across
archaeological finds of prehistoric times, and foundations of stone huts dating from the Bronze Age, are not particularly ancient trulli.
This would be justified by the fact that rather than undertake the repair of the
same in case of disruption, they preferred to tear it down and rebuild it for economic reasons, reusing the material.
The oldest trulli of which trace remains there today were built in the sixteenth century near the
plateau of the Murgia Pugliese. The Trulli of Alberobello have been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The 'Castellana Caves' are a complex of underground karst cavities of caving and tourist interest, situated in the municipality of Castellana Grotte, in the Murgia of Bari province, less than one kilometer from the
town.
Attached to the complex there is a speleological museum.
Website
Competition Silver 15th Edition: 29 May 3 to June 2012.
Piano, chamber music, vocal chamber music.
Official
Website
March 19 - squares and plazas of the historic center.
Bonfire, wine tasting, concerts in the theater.
The ritual was born to celebrate the end of winter and beginning of spring, burning steppes of trees pruned and ready to bloom again along with a puppet, symbol of negativity.
From the way the wood is blazing deduced predictions about the weather and the harvest.
It is a particularly important date for the town of Gioia del Colle, dedicated to the celebration of the patron saint" San Filippo Neri". It a heartfelt religious feast and a lively participation by many faithful residents,
but also people coming from neighboring communities.
Illuminations, marching bands ,fireworks ,shows and various attractions.
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Casa Niné promotes mobility and sustainable tourism based on the conviction that visiting the area in the saddle of a bicycle, with the power of your legs and respecting the rhythm of his own breathing, is useful both for engaging the mind, healthy body and respectful the environment.
At Casa Niné you can rent bicycles to be used as vehicle or to discover the natural and architectural beauties of Puglia, along exciting cycling routes.
Near the B&B there is a small space with workshop facilities, it will give you the ability to make minor repairs, clean and safe to leave your horse with two wheels.
FIAB members discount;
FIAB groups discount;
Easily reachable by bike;
Knowledge of FIAB and
Bicitalia in the area;
Contacts with experts on
local routes;
Guides for local tours
offered or provided with;
Cycling maps and articles
available;
Roadside recovery for
Cyclists;
Free laundry facilities;
Paid laundry facilities;
Bike washing area;
Repairing equipment;
Guest book;
Bike rental;
Lunch boxes on request.
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