Places to visit in Lecce

Julie

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Julie

02 August 2013 12:41:09

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Julie

02 August 2013 12:41:09

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Hi,

For the ones living in Lecce, what would you suggest to discover the region?

When you have friends or family visiting you, where do you go with them? What are the must-see places in Lecce, the tourist sites?

How to visit the region in an original way? Any unusual or unknown place to recommend?

What would you suggest for a couple of days of for a week of holidays in Lecce?

Thank you in advance for participating

Julie

nderello

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nderello

20 August 2013 19:12:45

nderello

20 August 2013 19:12:45

I must say a weekend let you only have a walk in the city... Lecce province (also known as SALENTO) it's pretty rich of places of relevance to be seen! From monuments, history, baroque, lovely food and well known wine, the fabulous “rocky” Adriatic seaside and the amazing “sandy” Ionian seaside, the tip of the “heel” Santa Maria di Leuca (finibus terrae), Otranto with thousand of things to visit (the 800 hundred martyrs cathedral, the “punta palascia” lighthouse, the colourful bauxite cave –artificial lake- and more), Gallipoli for it's night life, discos and dancing on to the beach at the moonlight... Believe me, I can carry on for ages! In this time of the year there are folk feasts (known as “sagre”) all over the place (you'll enjoy folk music and most of the time fireworks) to celebrate any sort of thing: wine, beer, celery, pork meat, hot peppers... and by the way I would love to invite you all to "sagra del peperoncino piccante" on September the 1th and I'll be there! If is there any other or personal question I'll be pleased to reply and to help out guiding to your trip in SALENTO, even in private; I can give you my mobile number then.

That I would recommend you is to get a car... transports aren't great... it is a shame but take it as an advice! It is not well connected! A car doesn't let you waste half day and is the only way to visit “unusual places”!

Please, click on to the link above, zoom in, see the pictures and tell us what you think!

Kind regards to all visitors!

karen

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Member since 21 June 2013

Port-Louis

karen

21 August 2013 11:42:51

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karen

21 August 2013 11:42:51

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nderello

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nderello

21 August 2013 18:59:35

nderello

21 August 2013 18:59:35

I love this site, so, it's a pleasure! Anyway as I mantioned previously an event called "festa del peperoncino" (hot peppers feast, with spicy food, beer, good local wine, local farmers exhibiting their spicy products and local artisans showing their gift ideas, orchestral and folk music and a "eating hottest pepper" competition) I want to invite anyone who'll be able to reach the place, it also worth a short trip around the location to look at the town centre.... It will start from 19.30. For any other advice I'll be pleased to reply! Thanks by now and I'll see you there!

Do not miss this, you'll have fun!

link here to join the event!

nderello

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nderello

03 September 2015 17:08:13

nderello

03 September 2015 17:08:13

WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK-END??
If you'd like to go to Ruffano (30 miles from Lecce towards south) on the 6th from 6pm is going to be celebrate "MARU", the hottest fest ever!!!
Peppers from around the world, endurance contest (anyone can partecipate), many cultural events around peppers, tastings, local food and wine, many stalls where you can buy different kind of spicy and "proper" food from (friselle, conserve, taralli, salami and so on...),but also you can enjoy spicy ice cream, spicy crepes and on top of this the "associazione pasticcieri salentini" would show you "live" the whole process to make the well known "pasticciotto", of course, spicy for the occasion; also known as "Obama", the dark "pasticciotto" is filled with chocolate cream with a tiny hot and spicy liquid heart of dark chocolate!
The moroccan comunity will prepare some aubergine and sardines fish-ball and moroccan tea.
Different music spots around this fest: a violinist will go from irish to "klezmer" to finish with "pizzica".....
a guitarist will play italian music you'll love.... a dj set project called "Beirut World Beat" will impress you with remakes of music from the Arab Middle East, North Africa, Iran, India, Greece, Turkey, the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Andalusia. Ballet and theatre will enchant you,
You can buy "real" pizzica handcrafted tambourine and organic decorations and wreaths (peppers, garlic, spices, leaves, ...) and lots of other things I cannot even remember!
entertainment for kids is also guaranteed.
click here to see the map
So if you'll be around bring friends, if you like the event, please share it. If you then would like to have a chat with some english speaking natives ask for "ermanno" at the "maru people" (they'll were "maru" t-shirt).
Look forward to see you there!

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