The d’Amore family could not have a more fitting name as the custodians of Castello di Ugento, their ancestral seat for centuries, with a history preceding them by several more. There are few labours of love greater than dedicating a wing to a museum of your forebears, who were praised for their ‘antique and illustrious nobility’, set out all around you in ravishingly restored frescoes. But, the present generation are investing in more cultural currency, establishing a modern-art gallery, tutoring future chef-superstars in a renowned culinary school, and hosting guests in stylishly anachronistic rooms with mod-statement pieces set against 17th-century stone – we love.