Although Lecce is famous for its churches and its unique Baroque style, my knowledge of the city is much more mundane, having been there to visit a friend of mine. It pays to know someone locally, since the night scene is surprisingly vibrant. There are serious concerts of classical music in ... Read review
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Although Lecce is famous for its churches and its unique Baroque style, my knowledge of the city is much more mundane, having been there to visit a friend of mine. It pays to know someone locally, since the night scene is surprisingly vibrant. There are serious concerts of classical music in summer, but we went for some underground bars with good music. What stroke me is that people are very friendly, you hear this many times in Italy, but this city ... more
Although Lecce is famous for its churches and its unique Baroque style, my knowledge of the city is much more mundane, having been there to visit a friend of mine. It pays to know someone locally, since the night scene is surprisingly vibrant. There are serious concerts of classical music in summer, but we went for some underground bars with good music. What stroke me is that people are very friendly, you hear this many times in Italy, but this city stands out, at least as far as my experience go. For a ggod and cheap lunch, go to “Da Guido e figlio” in Via Trinchese 10.
Advantages: culture and history, landscape, sea, olives, wine, people, sun etc. Disadvantages: public transport in rural areas weak to non-existent especially out of season; very little English spoken
special really. Then we walk through.
Now, Lecce is the one place in Puglia mentioned and usually fairly extensively covered by guide books for the whole of Italy. Of the 6 pages devoted on average to Puglia at least one is given to Lecce. It is easy to see why: the extensive, partially walled area of the old town is a furry, flurry and flourish of Baroque architecture, rivalling or maybe even surpassing in its singularity anything that even Rome can offer. The Lecce stonemasons had a specially pliable local stone of warm, pinkish-cream colour to make use of and boy they made use of it.
Maybe 50 meters on the right after Porta Rudiae, Chiesa del Rosario sits in all its glory, one of the best examples of Lecce baroque at the hands of its most famous representative Giuseppe Zimbalo or lo Zingarello (The Gypsy). It comes as a shock, even ...
magdadh 13.07.2004 (22.10.2004)
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