Lecce
Lecce "City of Art", famous also like "Florence of the Baroque", founded from the Messapi, assumed the Lupiae name in roman age. Subject to the Bizantini from YOU century until to the half of the XI, passed to the Normanni then.
Lecce is the cultural, spiritual and economic center of the entire province. To the beauty of Lecce the splendor of the salento is placed side by side and of on the natural landscapes:sea, beach, reef, campaign… all that that is necessary for one vacation from dream.
Otranto, one of the salento's jewels
The ancient Hydruntum, Greek and then roman city, in the Middle Ages were one of the more important centers of the dominion bizantino in Italy, thanks to the position of its port, boarding for the East. In spite of the destructions endured in the centuries, the city conserve numerous antichi buildings. To the period bizantino it belongs the most interesting chiesetta of Saint Peter, and still Cathedral (1080-1088), important example of the architecture Roman-pugliese, in whose inside finds the splendid paved mosaic of 1165, interpreted more times like the tree of the life, and where there is the Nail head of the Martyrdoms, in which are conserved boneses nearly 600 victims of the eccidio perpetuated from the Turks. The Castle of 1400 built up in order to safeguard the city from you onslaught of the Turks. And finally, the splendid sea.