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Artistic Spirit

“The greatest loves are probably the ones that happen by chance, when you don’t expect them,” contemplates architect and entrepreneur Luca Bombassei. The love Bombassei is referring to, in this case, is his relationship with Salento, the southernmost region of Puglia and the land upon which his farmhouse was built in the late 1500s. Salento is grazed by sea on two sides but its soul is the countryside, all olive trees and grassy fields criss-crossed by stone walls so old they too came from this earth. On

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