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It has the attractive force of a magnet. Every small street in Lecce these days leads into the embrace of Piazza Duomo where a real glimpse of rural Salento seems to have come from the past or rained down from the sky. The great artistic nativity scene is different every year but every time it gives precious suggestions. In the days...

Discovering the secrets of the castle, from prisons to patrol walkways, from the chapel of Santa Barbara to the papier-mâché museum and underground galleries. The opportunity is offered...

Michele Massari was a multifaceted artist, able to range from painting to sculpture with the same expressive depth, also venturing into decorative works (he painted the walls and vaults of many...

Straw souls, dresses with focussed pleats, plaster hands. The paper with glue was made sacred on the counter of the workshop of Luigi Guacci (1871-1934), statuary master of papier-mâché, heir to that noble tradition which, between the 19th and 20th centuries, made Lecce one of...

It has the attractive force of a magnet. Every small street in Lecce these days leads into the embrace of Piazza Duomo where a real glimpse of rural Salento seems to have come from the past or rained down from the sky. The great artistic nativity scene is different every year but every time it gives precious suggestions. In the days ...

Discovering the secrets of the castle, from prisons to patrol walkways, from the chapel of Santa Barbara to the papier-mâché museum and underground galleries. The opportunity is offered...

Not only the Amphitheatre in Piazza Sant'Oronzo, witness of the ancient Lupiae in the imperial age. Lecce has another just a few kilometres from the centre. The Christmas holidays are a good time to visit the Parco Archeologico di Rudiae (Rudiae Archaeological Park), accessible thanks to an agreement between the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio for the provinces of Brindisi and Lecce and ARVa SRL, in collaboration with the municipality of Lecce.

It is reached by taking the road ...

Michele Massari was a multifaceted artist, able to range from painting to sculpture with the same expressive depth, also venturing into decorative works (he painted the walls and vaults of many...

It has the attractive force of a magnet. Every small street in Lecce these days leads into the embrace of Piazza Duomo where a real glimpse of rural Salento seems to have come from the past or rained down from the sky. The great artistic nativity scene is different every year but every time it gives precious suggestions. In the days ...

Discovering the secrets of the castle, from prisons to patrol walkways, from the chapel of Santa Barbara to the papier-mâché museum and underground galleries. The opportunity is offered...