We are an agriturism village (holiday farm) situated nine kilometres from the town of Cassano delle Murge, on the old road to Altamura, beside the forest of Mercadante. We are made up of an old postal stage for horses, along the “Federiciana” road (Frederick the Great way), and a reception centre fully equipped for tourist activities and refreshments. Solinio village was born from the love of the nature of Murgia (from the Latin “murex” – rock which emerges), the splendid rocky and hilly high plains, sometimes gentle yet sometimes inaccessible, of central Puglia. This is a region that has thrust its own geo-ethnic roots beneath the hunting territories of Frederick II in an area rich in archaeological remains, the ultimate of which is the Altamura man (pre-neanderthal man). The entire region of Alta Murgia (“High Murgia”) shows plenty of evidence of a past that has resisted time and the ravages of man. Think only of the Via Appia (the Appian Way), the road that joined Rome to Brindisi, passing through the towns of Gravina, Altamura and Laterza, stretching over the millenia that have also made it bloom with the Pythagorean Magna Grecia.