About us

We are people who live in this corner of Puglia, and who put our hearts into it.

Gravine Homes grew out of a simple conviction: the best hospitality comes from people who live in a place, know it well and love it. We look after every home ourselves — we check the quality, take care of the details, welcome our guests and help them discover the Terra delle Gravine.

Our homes are not just places to sleep. They are real houses in the old town of Laterza — restored with respect for the original architecture, furnished with care and equipped with everything you need. Every morning we drop by to make sure all is as it should be. Every guest has our direct phone number.

Our approach

We only take on homes that meet our own standards of quality, comfort and cleanliness. Then we maintain them, improve them and look after them as if they were our own. Because the difference between an ordinary stay and a memorable one lies in the details — and details only hold up if somebody is there to look after them.

Laterza is our home. The canyon, the old town, the bread ovens, the potters' workshops — we know every corner of it, and we know how to point our guests in the right direction. Not with packaged tours, but with honest advice: where to eat, what to see, which path to walk at sunset.

Two of our homes — Iris and Il Belvedere — have been official stops on the Cammino Materano since the route was first mapped out in 2016: a network of walking trails that crosses the Murgia plateau, the canyons and the lime-washed villages of Puglia all the way to Matera, in the tradition of the old pilgrim ways. Walkers find a comfortable bed and a hot shower with us at the end of the day's walk.

The Terra delle Gravine

The Terra delle Gravine Regional Nature Park is the largest in Puglia: 25,000 hectares of canyons, Mediterranean scrub and lime-washed villages. Laterza sits at its heart, with a twelve-kilometre canyon of its own — one of the deepest in Europe.

This is not the Puglia of beaches and nightlife. Its beauty reveals itself only to those who stop and look: an Egyptian vulture circling above the canyon, the late light on the pale limestone, the smell of bread coming out of the ovens early in the morning.