Easily the best I have seen in Puglia. Wonderful nature and incredible facilities for walking and exercising. Conca Specchiula is a fantastic, very safe, very well looked-after gated community with easy access to the sea. Renato’s villa, with a cosy and spacious inner courtyard, is well looked after and had everything we needed. We spent a month there, did a lot of work (I am a writer and a food critic), and our two dogs had a fantastic time in the pine forests, on the cliffs and beaches. Lecce is a friendly city with some superb restaurants (make sure you get not only Michelin guide but Italy’s best food guide Gambero Rosso, too; especially its pizza edition - life is too short for an imperfect pizza when there are some incredible pizzerias within easy reach, such as 400 Gradi in Lecce and especially Pizzeria dei Mille in Corigliano d’Otranto). A friendly and a helpful host, Renato, made our stay a pure pleasure.