Explore Lecce - Walking Tour

Lecce, also called Florence of the Southern Italy, preserves artistic and architectural treasures of rare value. Nobody knows that Lecce hides an underground city to discover.

The tour starts from the Basilica of Santa Croce, jewel of the Baroque of Lecce.

Arrival in Piazza Sant’Oronzo, where there are Palazzo del “Sedile”, the Roman column with the statue of the Saint and the Roman amphitheater.

Walk along Corso Vittorio Emanuele with is ancient palaces of the 500, 600 and 700 centuries.

Piazza Duomo in which there are the seminary, the Episcopate, the bell tower and the cathedral.

Visit of the underground museum of “Palazzo Taurino: Medieval Jewish Lecce”, located in the heart of Jewish Jew and in particular on the remains of the ancient Synagogue, with its mikveh e mezuzah.

In the underground of the palace is set up a path on the medieval Lecce. A journey inside the unexplored history of the city of Lecce.