La Motticella or Motta della Regina is a centuries-old settlement, reported on maps even before 1000 b. C.
Originally, it was a stopover on the road between Lucera, in the inland area, and Lesina, outpost of Venice on the Adriatic sea. It later became a fee belonging to the Caropresa family, the Zunica, and the Serra di Cassano.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, my grandfather Paolo Petrilli bought it using my grandmother Teresa's dowry, and it was united to the neighbouring family estates: Feudo, Bisciglieto, Sequestro and De Iulio.