Lecce Trip Overview
Is the first time you visit Lecce and want to know the city and its food specialties? This tour is the perfect solution forr you!
Stroll into the city center and taste the best known local street food. Your guide will tell you the histories related to the main highlights such as the Basilica of Santa Croce, considered the emblem of Lecce baroque style, the Cathedral and many palaces you will find on the way. From a highlight to another, you will stop and delight your palate with the most famous and tasty delicacies of Salento, like the “rustico”: soft puff pastry disc filled with mozzarella, tomato and bechamel, “frisella”: roll bread, twice-baked and topped with fresh tomato, olive oil, or the pastry star “pasticciotto”: a short pastry stuffed with custard and other fantastic sample of Salento specialties.
Choose to take this tour either at lunch or dinner time, as it is an ideal way to do some sightseeing while having a light meal as you make your way through the city.
Additional Info
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
Starts: Lecce, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Lecce, Puglia, Italy
Is the first time you visit Lecce and want to know the city and its food specialties? This tour is the perfect solution forr you!
Stroll into the city center and taste the best known local street food. Your guide will tell you the histories related to the main highlights such as the Basilica of Santa Croce, considered the emblem of Lecce baroque style, the Cathedral and many palaces you will find on the way. From a highlight to another, you will stop and delight your palate with the most famous and tasty delicacies of Salento, like the “rustico”: soft puff pastry disc filled with mozzarella, tomato and bechamel, “frisella”: roll bread, twice-baked and topped with fresh tomato, olive oil, or the pastry star “pasticciotto”: a short pastry stuffed with custard and other fantastic sample of Salento specialties.
Choose to take this tour either at lunch or dinner time, as it is an ideal way to do some sightseeing while having a light meal as you make your way through the city.
Stop At: Porta San Biagio, Piazza Italia, incrocio Via Marino Brancaccio, 73100, Lecce Italy
You will meet our guide here, down the big arch, that represents one of the three old main entrances of the city
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Chiesa di San Matteo, Via Dei Perroni 29, 73100, Lecce Italy
This church is important for its façade: convex in the lower part and concave in the upper part
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Piazza del Duomo, 73010, Lecce Italy
The peculiarity of this square is that it’s closed, with only one entrance. Inside you can admire the wonderful façade of old bishopric. In the night you will enjoy the special atmosphere coming from the lighting on buildings
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Porta Napoli, Via Adua Altezza Piazzetta Arco di Trionfo, 73100, Lecce Italy
Porta Napoli is the second entrance to old town together with Porta San Biagio and Porta Rudiae. It takes this name because from this point begins the route to get to Naples
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Palazzo dei Celestini, Via Umberto I 13, 73100, Lecce Italy
Together with Santa Croce basilaca that stands by its side, they are the emblem of local Barocco style: facades full of minute decorations to resemble a thick embroidered sheet
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Piazza Sant’Oronzo, 73100, Lecce Italy
While discovering the main highlights of Lecce in old town, you will also anjoy the most famous samples of local specialties, like rustico, a saldy puff pastry snack, pasticciotto, emblem of local pastries and frisella, typical fast food of summer light lunch and dinner
Duration: 30 minutes
Sample Menu
• Frisella – Double-baked dried bread, dressed with tomato, rocket or oregano, and olive oil
• Tarallini, salami and red wine
• Rustico – Puff pastry disk, stuffed with bechamel, tomato and mozzarella
