22/04/2026
Intervening in a Salento village means confronting layers of time.
This house in the historic centre of Matino brings together the Gothic plot type with a small internal courtyard, from which emerge a votive niche and an ancient bossed olive-wood door. Lime-plastered barrel vaults, decorated cement tiles and cast cement floors follow one another across three levels in a balance already written.
There is a difference between those who work a territory and those who have always lived it: we belong to the second. Returning light and space without overwriting the existing matter.
From the uppermost terrace, the Gulf of Gallipoli and the Sant’Andrea lighthouse close the story.