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516  SOUTHERN IT AL Y

u Street-by-Street: Lecce

Lecce was the site of the Greek Messapi
settlement. It became an important centre of
the Roman Empire, and in the Middle Ages
developed a strong tradition of scholarship.
Much of the architecture is in the highly
decorative Lecce Baroque style, which flourished
in the 1600s and earned the city the name of
Florence of the South. This style was possible
due to the pietra di Lecce, an easily carved . Palazzo Vescovile and Duomo
The bishop’s palace (rebuilt in 1632),
stone. Giuseppe Zimbalo (Lo Zingarello) was the adjoining Duomo by Lo V I A U M B E R TO I
its greatest master. Lecce is also famed for its Zingarello (after 1659) and a
papier-mâché workshops. seminary (1709) enclose the
Piazza Duomo.
Tourist
information
Key PIAZZA
CASTROMEDIANO
Suggested route

0 metres 100
0 yards 100 V I A RU B I C H I

PIAZZA
SANT ORONZO
,

Chiesa del Rosario
Said to be the finest work
by Lo Zingarello (begun ,
1691), the exterior PIAZZA VIA D ARAGONA
is ornate and
idiosyncratic DUOMO VIA PALADINI
Porta Rudiae in its detail. V I A V I T T O R I O E M A N U E L E V I A L E C C E
This 18th-century city gate
leads to the suburbs and to
the ruins of Roman Rudiae. VICOLO SANTA

V I A G I U S E P P E L I B E R T I N I VENERA VIA MARCO BASSEO Railway
VIA MORELLI
station

The Seminary once
Famous papier-mâché supplied the Vatican with V I A R . C A R A C C I O L O
(carta pesta) workshops castrato singers – eunuchs V I A G C I N O
noted for their high voices.
Chiesa del Carmine
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp576–7 and pp600–605

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