28/08/2026
Surrounding the fields around the Masseria, and scattered across the whole Salento countryside, the “pagghiare”, ancient dry-stone shelters, were built by generations of farmers, without mortar or architects, using only the stone gathered from the surrounding fields.
Their conical, rising forms are at once remarkably simple and ingeniously precise: places to store tools and crops, shelter from the summer heat, and, in their larger forms, even temporary homes for farming families.
More than just a rustic shelter, the pajara is a living fragment of Salento’s rural history, an architecture shaped by necessity, memory and an intimate knowledge of the land.