when they will have thought Pope Francis, Macron, Scholz, Biden and the whole company of the G7 of “Borgo Egnazia”, village all fake in the image of a real one from the Apulian countryside, more or less 70 kilometers south of Bari, where they gathered for three days to discuss the various problems of the world? And especially what Zelenzky must have thought of all that whiteness, those flowers, those stones so clean and brilliant, thinking back to the ruins that accumulate every day in your house after the Russian bombings?
We will never know but we can easily imagine that the authoritative guests did not remain indifferent.
The Borgo Egnazia project
Il extra luxury resort it is found at Savelletri, province of Fasano, but it doesn't matter because, just as if it were a real village, as if it were a "village" in all respects, it has always been identified only with the name of the hotel. It is as if Rome, Florence, Naples, Bari were called with one of the names of the great hotels that were built there.
The project was born between 2005 and 2010 at the desire of the Melpignano family, Sergio and Marisa, owners of other farms, the best known of which is San Domenico, the first transformed from a private home into a Grande Hotel at the end of the nineties, and which later inspired all the owners of this type of villa in the typically Apulian countryside. The only difference is that while the other farms start from an ancient artefact on which the architects worked to create luxury hotels, Borgo Egnazia was created from nothing.
No he accomplished it a starchitect but a creative, the set designer and designer Pine Brescia, from Fasano. As he said, he was often a student at the Academy of Fine Arts and to support his studies he worked in Rome as a waiter for the Melpignano family. He loved setting up and creating choreographies so much so that he was recommended for a job that some acquaintances of the Melpignanos were unable to complete. The result pleased them so much that when they began to think about building Borgo Egnazia, Melpignano themselves decided to entrust the project to them.
What's inside Borgo Egnazia
The structure is composed of three separate areas, the Court, the Borgo and the Villas and employs 721 employees.
It arises in one panoramic position in the Mediterranean scrub between white stone walls and centuries-old olive groves. You cross an entrance door, and then you come across courtyards, alleys and alleys. Where the 63 rooms (minimum 33 square meters), le 92 lodges (the smallest of 42 square meters), the 28 villas with swimming pool and private garden (of 250 square meters each) and one manor house (500 square meters).
Every room, every little house isbanner of luxury and decorated in total white tones with panoramic balconies, stone bathrooms and every type of comfort.
Borgo Egnazia: prices
I prices vary depending on the solution chosen and the time of year. On a low season weekend, for example, we start from 429 euros for one night in the “Corte Bella” with pool view, it goes to 809 for a day at “La Casetta splendid”, up to 1.189 euros for the “Casa Bella”. For a week in this latest extra luxury structure, therefore, you can spend orover 8.000 euros. The suite is not missing, “La Egnazia”, a huge bright and private room with private swimming pool, panoramic terrace, stone bathroom and piped music. A night on a weekend in low season costs 1.589 euros. The most luxurious location, however, is there “Magnificent House” embraced by a Mediterranean garden with swimming pool and private patio: 2.109 euros.
The whole structure is surrounded by vast gardens in Arabic style with dry stone walls, it has 4 swimming pools, a 1.800 square meter wellness centre, 3 tennis courts and a private beach.
The VIPs who stayed in the resort
For fans of news from the golden world of billionaires and gods VIP generally, we remember that the actors got married here Justin Timberlake e Jessica Biel, the super-billionaire scion of New York, Renee Sutton, heir of the real estate developer Jess Sutton, owner of buildings on Fifth Avenue such as the one that houses the Armani Boutique, with her boyfriend Eliot Cohen, as well as the daughter of Indian iron magnate Pramod Agarwal, Ritika, with the promised Rohan Mehta, a three-day ceremony for 800 guests organized and directed by the Balich Worldwide Shows team, the holding company specialized in large events, including Olympic ones, complete with an elephant made up with two body paintings as the finale.
And which it has hosted over the years Madonna, perhaps the first star to discover the resort, and the legendary footballer David Beckham.
Borgo Egnazia: the starred cuisine of Domingo Schingaro
Like any self-respecting resort, Borgo Egnazia has within it a gourmet restaurant and with a Michel Star conquered in 2019, the Due Caminthe. The chef Domingo Schingaro, from Bari, proposes a traditional cuisine revisited in three tasting menus of 7 to 5 courses: Maestrale, Criànze, Foglie. A dinner choosing one of these menus costs from 160 to 200 euros per person excluding drinks. Domingo is actually called Domenico and wanted to be a fisherman like his father Onofrio, who once he returned from fishing displayed and sold the product at the 'Nderra a la lanza market, the small port next to the Margherita theatre, where the people of Bari go to gorge themselves on " crudo” and to drink “peroncino”, their favorite beer. But despite being proud of his profession, Mr. Onofrio had other plans for his son: he enrolled him in the "Perotti" hotel school where "Domenico" began the first steps to transform himself into "Domingo".
What to think of Borgo Egnazia
Un couple of observations before finishing the picture.
The first concerns the company: as has been noted, from the ownership of the structure to the creative who created it, from the chef to the employees, we are faced with awork entirely or almost made in Puglia. A great satisfaction for the family and the entire region, there's no denying it.
The second: one can imagine that as luxurious, and therefore as expensive as it appears, it is not very popular. Mistake. They only had problems during Covid, like the entire tourism sector, after which they are always full, then in the summer it is normal to sell out. It seems that the rich (or the privileged) around the world should choose it as indispensable destination to demonstrate one's status. As long as it lasts, Puglia as a whole community will enjoy it, and therefore that's fine.
Conclusion: the G7 meeting obviously it brought (more) prestige and a lot of honor, but as far as notoriety is concerned, certainly the arrival of Madonna or the weddings of the Indian offspring did more to make the destination an object of desire.
In short, to be precise: “Borgo Egnazia” was “Borgo Egnazia” long before Prime Minister Meloni and the world's greats arrived.
As fake as a movie backdrop, and for this very reason the ideal place for dreaming.
