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Day 8 of 11 · Lecce · Secret Stones & Wild Shores of Apulia and Basilicata

Day 8 — Lecce Baroque

TRANSFERbaroque architecture

A cultural day to your new base in Lecce, with 1 h 26 on the road and plenty of free time.

Lecce Baroque
Collage di alcune immagini di Lecce © photographed on 14 July 2010 by DaniDF1995 (collage)Laibniz, Filippo Caranti aka Terrasque… — CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Stage 5 · Lecce · Italy

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day 8 2 nights 1 h 26 on the road115 kmclimate favourable

programme
5 h
road
1 h 26

To add if time allows: Paper-mache workshop with a local master artisan (3 h) · Visit to the Faggiano archaeological museum (2 h)

Bad-weather option — something else that day — Architectural walk of Lecce's Baroque wonders

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On the way

Stops beside the road, chosen for their small detour — we say they are on the way, we do not promise to go through them.

  • Monopoli

    Monopoli

    Explore the historic center and the baroque facade of the Basilica of Santa Maria della Madia.

    60 min there · no detour · View on Google Maps

    © photographed on 5 December 2021 by Hagai Agmon-Snir حچاي اچمون-سنير חגי אגמון-שניר — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

  • Ostuni

    Ostuni

    Walk through the white-washed streets to admire the ornate baroque portal of the Concattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta.

    90 min there · no detour · View on Google Maps

    © photographed on 23 August 2023 by ParisTaras — CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons