Masseria Torre Maizza, a Rocco Forte Hotel

What the classifiers highlight

A whitewashed masseria near Savelletri di Fasano, forty rooms, the outside a textbook example of the local form. MICHELIN sets it against Puglia's own history, a region long poor in more than the geographic sense, where the first hotels were rustic farmhouses rather than polished ones. Inside, this one leans to the luxurious.