Abbazia di Santa Maria di Cerrate
A FAI-run Romanesque-Byzantine abbey founded c. 1100 near Lecce, with frescoes, a rural-life museum and olive groves. Closed Mondays.
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A FAI-run Romanesque-Byzantine abbey founded c. 1100 near Lecce, with frescoes, a rural-life museum and olive groves. Closed Mondays.
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Baroque church of 1687–91 in Lecce's old center, with an octagonal nave, carved limestone altars, and 18th-century ceiling frescoes. Free entry.
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Free 19th-century garden in central Lecce with geometric paths, marble sculptures, fountains and shade beside the Castello di Carlo V.
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Walk Lecce’s 16th-century Bastione San Francesco, with elevated ramparts, an excavated moat, Roman road remains and multimedia rooms.
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See Lecce’s Augustan-era Roman theatre, where a limestone cavea, orchestra and stage emerge behind old-town palazzi on Via degli Ammirati.
Sacred sculpture, paintings and silverwork from Salento churches, housed in Lecce's Piazza del Duomo beside the cathedral and its Baroque bell tower.
Museo Faggiano showcases 2,000 years of archaeological history discovered beneath a private residence.
MUST Lecce occupies a former convent beside the Roman Theatre, pairing the Cosimo Carlucci Civic Gallery with city-history and emerging-art displays.
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