The Building
Palazzo A Mauro was built around 1650, in the heart of Corigliano d’Otranto, during the Baroque period that shaped much of southern Puglia. Noble families built homes here with a clear sense of permanence: broad façades, hand-forged ironwork, and balconies designed as much for social life as for shade. The palazzo’s earliest known owners were the Manuli family, descendants of the Baroque architect Francesco Manuli, who is believed to have shaped the house in the seventeenth century. The ground floor housed a stable, a public bread oven and a mill, while the family lived above in rooms organised around everyday life. More than three centuries later, the house still follows the same idea: a place designed to be lived in together.
Your Stay
Palazzo A Mauro was made for people to be together, to share experiences — its spaces, its rhythm, its warmth entirely at their disposal. The intention behind every restoration decision was the same: that whoever arrives feels, from the first moment, that this place was waiting for them. Everything the house offers exists in service of that feeling — the feeling of being, for the duration of your stay, completely at home in Italy. As someone who belongs.
Our Story
There is a particular kind of longing that comes with roots left behind. The family behind Palazzo A Mauro is Italian-American — their grandparents part of the great southern migration that carried millions from Sicily, Naples, and the broader Mezzogiorno across the Atlantic in the early twentieth century. The Italy they left behind was never forgotten — passed down in the food, in the language, in a sense of belonging to a place. Finding this palazzo was the end of that long journey, and the beginning of something clear: a home where people could come together and share the kind of time that truly matters.
