Grand Designs Abroad

Grand Designs Abroad

Puglia, Italy: Masseria Impisi - An Artists' Retreat (1x3)


: 22, 2004

Puglia, in Italy’s deep south, where the country's heel rounds to the foot’s arch, is a land of shimmering heat, olive groves and artists’ dreams. It is also the place where artists, like David Westby and Leone (Leo) Witton, became hard-working artisans to turn a derelict olive farm into a Roman country estate – despite the worst obstructions of Italian bureaucracy and with very little money.

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