Advertised as being in Ceglie Messica and said "markets, cafes and restaurants are just a couple of km from the villa" which is a lie. Ceglie Messipica is 14 km drive through windy dark country roads. This solved our confusion as to why Stefano's uncle needed to meet us to direct us to the place. We would not have found our way without his direction as it is in the middle of nowhere.
The property is not even in Ceglie M. It is actually in Villa Castelli (although it is closer to C.M to drive).
The house itself was also very disappointing. It is really only a cottage. Some of the bedrooms are a good size but some are only big enough to squeeze a bed, stand up bent over, and have no windows. This didn't bother us as there is only two of us, but there is no sitting/lounge area apart from a couple of cane chairs in the entry room. There is a tiny TV high up on the wall in the dining room above a cabinet. There is also no adequate heating (a couple of small electric heaters) and a wood fire but no cut wood available apart from very small kindling. So, given that going out to eat and wander in the evenings was an uncomfortable driving distance away, and that being in the house was cold and uninviting we cancelled our 2 week booking on the first night and challenged Stefano over his misleading advertising of the location.
We were shocked at Stefano's unprofessional and rude response. He said that "it goes without saying that a country Villa with a big garden can't be located in the village and Celgie Messepica is 7 km away according to google maps". Yes, as the crow flies! By road it is close to 14km which is not "a couple". He then went on to say " next time you should think before if you don't feel like comfortable driving on foreign roads". No Stefano, you've got it the wrong way around. Next time don't advertise as a "couple of km" away when it is really 14 then there can't be any problem.
When we said we would take it up with Air BnB Stefano agreed to refund our money but said "this means you will not do any review on Air BnB ok"
A side issue but concerning, was that when we followed Stefano's uncle to the house we left him there (he was cleaning the pool) while we went to get some food as we didn't want to be finding our way back out there in the dark. When we came back we found that he had unlocked the door and gone in. We were very angry about this lack of boundaries as all our documents, cash, computers etc were there. Stefano offered no apology for this or any reason, so we still don't know why his uncle went in.