Lecce, Italy Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Whether or not you like the Baroque style, you can't fail to be impressed by the exuberant building styles on display in LECCE , though the fact that they are firmly in the grip of a largely unremarkable modern city does detract from the enjoyment. The arrival of religious orders (Jesuits, the Teatini and Franciscans) at the end of the sixteenth century brought an influx of wealth which paid for the opulent churches and palazzi that still pervade today's city. The flowery style of "Leccese Baroque" owed as much to the materials to hand as to the skills of the architects: the soft local sandstone … more »