Lecce - useful informations about Lecce and its district

Lecce was founded, how the legend recounds, at the times of the war of Troy and numerous reports of the period are visitable at the museums. Chief town of Salento land between two seas Adriatic and Jonio is characterized from a landscape to immense expanses of red land and pietraie brulle. To visit the Porta of Rudiae, the Chiesa of the Rosario, of Sant'Anna, of Sant'Irene, of San Matteo, and the curch of Jesus, the obelisk of Ferdinando I, the Palazzo of Celestini, the Castello of Carlo V, the public gardens, the Teatro Paisiello, the square Sant'Oronzo. A lot interesting locality from the artistic point of wiev tan natural: on the cost to South of chief town there is the town of Otranto with depositions of the Byzantine east and romanic west where blend style and cultures, than Gallipoili, turistic destination for the wonderful sea , offers the sixteenth-century Castel, the port, the village Antico and Fontana Ellenistica; Porto Cesareo with characteristic backdrops and tipical animals of the hot tropical sub seas; Salve small center well-known for its gold beaches and clear water; Santa Cesarea Terme situated in the Canale of Otranto is a locality of sea and thermal fot its rich waters of therapeutic property; Ugento with its Castello, the Cattedrale, the messapiche wall, the Museo of Archeologia and the wonderful beaches of the turquoise sea; Trepuzzi draws its economical resources from the cultivations of olive, wine, tobacco and various vegetable. In the province is still thriving the craftsmanship: cartapestai, engravers,ceramisti intarsiatori, giocattolai, canestrai, weavers, ramai, bottai crowd the shops.