Step Into La Peschiera Boutique Hotel, the Bourbon Fish Farm Carved Into the Puglia Cliffs. Here's What Awaits.
April 15, 2026
A Former Bourbon Fish Farm on the Puglia Coast Now Holds 13 Rooms & Seven Pools
Puglia has been on the radar for years, and La Peschiera, gives you a grounded way to experience it. This five-star boutique hotel, Carved into the cliffs above the Adriatic between Monopoli and Savelletri, holds just 13 rooms, a private beach, seven pools and one of the most quietly extraordinary tables on the Italian coast.
A member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World, La Peschiera began its life as a royal fishing outpost for the House of Bourbon, then spent decades as a working fish farm. What stands today is something rarer: a property that lets the sea do all the talking. Natural stone walls, muslin-draped beds, cerulean fabrics and pool terraces, opening directly onto the water. Wake up, stretch, and the Adriatic is your entire view.
Two Tables, One Philosophy
The gastronomic address here runs in two directions. Saleblu is the fine dining experience: a handful of tables, floor-to-ceiling windows open to the horizon, and a kitchen that operates as what Chef Vincenzo Montanaro calls an ecosystem in balance between technique and nature. Recipient of two Gambero Rosso Forks, Saleblu sits pieds dans l'eau above the Adriatic. With the sea as an active presence in every course. Montanaro, who brings over 20 years at Puglia's most prestigious luxury addresses, reads the Mediterranean as a mosaic of cultures and routes.
La Peschiera Bistrot runs on a different rhythm: immediate, authentic, rooted in the Apulian tradition. Light preparations, clean flavors, seafood pulled from the same waters you have been swimming in all day. The two concepts share a philosophy and a chef; what changes is the register.
Seven Pools and a Private Beach
The 13 rooms split into Pool, Sunrise, Sunshine, and Panorama. All open onto private terraces facing the pools or the sea, often both. Breakfast lands on your terrace when you ask for it.
Seven pools run along the property in a thalassic sequence, varying in temperature and depth, including a cold plunge. A 25-metre lap pool anchors the layout. The sauna faces the water through glass. Below, a private sandy beach extends the same line, with loungers and parasols set directly along the shore.
When you are ready to move, the concierge arranges wine tastings, Vespa rides, helicopter tours over Puglia's most scenic towns, and private transfers from Bari or Brindisi airports, both around 65 kilometers away. Monopoli is ten minutes up the coast. Polignano a Mare, Ostuni, Alberobello and its UNESCO-listed trulli are all within reach.
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