Gallipoli Trip Overview
Explore how very different, friendly and playful Baroque style can be in the honey-colored “Florence of the South”. Visit Lecce, famed city of art and birthplace of the marvelous “barocco Leccese”. Besides the mesmerizing virtuously carved fine-grained honey-colored local limestone decorations of the impressing churches, monumental monasteries and renaissance and baroque style noble houses, which made Lecce so famous, the second most important and still kept alive artisanship is papier-mâché art. Discover how local craftsmen express their art in the numerous little papier-mâché “botteghe” in the historical district.
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Duration: 6 hours
Starts: Gallipoli, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Explore how very different, friendly and playful Baroque style can be in the honey-colored “Florence of the South”. Visit Lecce, famed city of art and birthplace of the marvelous “barocco Leccese”. Besides the mesmerizing virtuously carved fine-grained honey-colored local limestone decorations of the impressing churches, monumental monasteries and renaissance and baroque style noble houses, which made Lecce so famous, the second most important and still kept alive artisanship is papier-mâché art. Discover how local craftsmen express their art in the numerous little papier-mâché “botteghe” in the historical district.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Porta Napoli, Via Adua Altezza Piazzetta Arco di Trionfo, 73100, Lecce Italy
Porta Napoli is the starting point of the guided tour and prefered entrance in the Baroque historical town of Lecce.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Centro Storico, Lecce, Corte dei Cicala, 19-35, 73100, Lecce Italy
Guided visit of Santa Maria Assunta Cathedral and Dome Square.
Photo stop to capture the beauty of dozens of baroque private palaces.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Piazza Sant’Oronzo, 73100, Lecce Italy
Guided visit of the most important square of Lecce old town and of the famous Roman Amphiteathre hidden among the modern buildings.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Basilica di Santa Croce, Via Umberto I 3, 73100, Lecce Italy
Guided visit of the most beautiful religious building of Lecce Baroque town.
Duration: 30 minutes
