The masseria is one fortified small farm much diffusing in Puglia and Sicily. The masseria is the expression of a tied geo-economic organization to the Latifondo, the great land property that fed the unearned incomes of the aristocratic classes and the bourgeoisie. The masserie were therefore of the great inhabited agricultural companies, sometimes, also from the land owners, but the great rural construction also comprised the lodgings of the peasants, in sure zones also only ages them, the stables, I placed for forages and the harvests to you. The birth of the masseria was often a product of the baronial colonization of immense uncultivated abandoned inner areas and, in the years between the 1500's and the 1700's, when Spain in order to provision of the cereals, granted the licence of ripopolamento to the noble ones of Sicily which succeeded in to even found of the true and own villages in the outskirtses of the original construction. Still today in the Sicily and above all in the Altosalento, in Commanded and from Bari south-east, the zones of traditional agricultural use, it is possible to meet such constructions of remarkable restored and red-use volume and extension as agrituristiche companies. The typical outline of the masseria comprised one inside construction of type closed towards the outside and with the openings all revolts of the court or the great courtyard. The same ones wall perimetrali, without openings, made from protection against intruders and malintenzionati, allowing also one defended eventual against you onslaught of briganti. A large door of crossed income from a sturdy one portone allowed the access to the great courtyard also to the carrozze and the carriaggi from transport. Generally a part of the building to inhabited scope had or more high plans in which it inhabited the “master” and its family.