In the beautiful village of Salve, 5 km from the enchanting beaches of Salento, Salento Agency offers for sale an ancient palace with a watchtower dating back to the 1500s. Articulated on four levels (basement, ground floor, first floor and second floor of the tower), the palazzo has its entrance on Via Persico, a small street located a few metres from Piazza Concordia, the town’s main square. This ancient palace for sale houses numerous testimonies of the past, including ancient fireplaces, cisterns, colonnades, decorations, etc.. On the street, two rooms are vaulted with typical star vaults and another room serves as an entrance to the courtyard. The ground floor and first floor are divided into two areas with a large courtyard in the centre and the staircase leading to the upper level. The covered area of the two portions of the ground floor measures a total of 100 square metres; the two portions of the first floor measure a total of 167 square metres. One room on the first floor houses a small, narrow staircase leading to the second floor, the watchtower room. From here, a second, very narrow staircase leads to the terrace from which there is an exceptional panoramic view over the city and towards the sea. Still visible on the tower are the machicolations, from which soldiers would throw stones, boiling oil and anything else available in the event of an enemy attack. Compared to the coastal towers, the towers in the town centre mostly have a truncated pyramid shape on a square base. The two types communicated with each other and some were called cavalry towers because soldiers on horseback promptly ran towards the town to warn the people of the impending invasion. In the basement there is a cellar, typically barrel-vaulted, divided into three rooms. The building is ideal for building a tourist accommodation facility or your residence in the lower Salento region. If your intention is to build a tourist accommodation facility, take a look also at an old oil mill for sale in Giuliano di Lecce, by clicking here…
