Southern Italy
Apulia
Lecce

Lecce

Lecce is a city in the region of . Lecce has been dubbed "the of the south". Whereas many people skip it in favour of the nearby beach towns of the peninsula, this city, distinguished by its elaborate style of baroque buildings, has at least a couple of days of attractions worth seeing.
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  • Type: City with 94,800 residents
  • Description: Italian comune
  • Also known as: “Lecce, Italy”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lecce railway station and Lecce Cathedral.

Railway station
Photo: Haragayato, CC BY-SA 4.0.
serves the city and comune of Lecce, in the region of , . Opened in 1866, it is the southern terminus of the Adriatic Railway, and is also the terminus of two regional lines, the Martina Franca–Lecce railway and the Lecce–Otranto railway.

Church
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is the cathedral of the city of Lecce in , Italy, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Lecce.

Church
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The Basilica of the Holy Cross is a Baroque-style church completed in 1695 in Lecce, , Italy.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Surbo and Merine.

Town
is a town and comune in the in the region of south-east . It is an administrative enclave in the territory of the city of Lecce from whose center it is about 5 km away…

Village
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is an Italian village and hamlet of the municipality of in the , . As of 2011 its population was of 4,785.

Lecce

Latitude
40.357° or 40° 21′ 25″ north
Longitude
18.1718° or 18° 10′ 19″ east
Population
94,800
Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)
IATA airport code
LCC
United Nations Location Code
IT LCC
Open location code
8FGW954C+RP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 68528599
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3174953
Wiki­data ID
Q13386
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In Other Languages

From Ancient Greek to Yue Chinese—“Lecce” goes by many names.
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λουπίαι”
  • Arabic: “لتشه”
  • Arabic: “ليتشي”
  • Aragonese: “Lecce”
  • Armenian: “Լեչե”
  • Asturian: “Lecce”
  • Azerbaijani: “Leççe”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lesse”
  • Basque: “Lecce”
  • Belarusian: “Леччэ”
  • Belarusian: “Лечэ”
  • Bengali: “লেসে”
  • Breton: “Lecce”
  • Bulgarian: “Лече”
  • Catalan: “Lecce”
  • Cebuano: “Lecce”
  • Chechen: “Лечче”
  • Chinese: “Lecce”
  • Chinese: “壢車”
  • Chinese: “莱切”
  • Chinese: “萊切”
  • Chinese: “雷契”
  • Corsican: “Lecce”
  • Croatian: “Lecce”
  • Czech: “Lecce”
  • Danish: “Lecce”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Leçe”
  • Dutch: “Lecce”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليتشى”
  • Esperanto: “Lecce”
  • Estonian: “Lecce”
  • Finnish: “Lecce”
  • French: “Lecce, Italie”
  • French: “Lecce”
  • Galician: “Lecce”
  • Georgian: “ლეჩე”
  • German: “Lecce”
  • Greek: “Luppiu”
  • Greek: “Λέτσε”
  • Gujarati: “લેસે”
  • Hebrew: “לצ’ה”
  • Hebrew: “לצה”
  • Hindi: “ल्ससे”
  • Hungarian: “Lecce”
  • Icelandic: “Lecce”
  • Ido: “Lecce”
  • Indonesian: “Lecce”
  • Interlingua: “Lecce”
  • Irish: “Lecce”
  • Italian: “Lecce”
  • Japanese: “レッチェ”
  • Kannada: “ಲೆಸ್ಸೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Лечче”
  • Korean: “레체”
  • Kurdish: “Lecce”
  • Ladin: “Lecce”
  • Latin: “Lupiae”
  • Latvian: “Leče”
  • Lithuanian: “Lečė”
  • Lombard: “Lecce”
  • Macedonian: “Лече”
  • Malay: “Lecce”
  • Maltese: “Lecce”
  • Marathi: “लेसे”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lecce”
  • Moksha: “Лэччэ”
  • Neapolitan: “Lecce”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lecce”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lecce”
  • Norwegian: “Lecce”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lecce”
  • Ossetian: “Лечче”
  • Papiamento: “Lecce”
  • Persian: “لچه”
  • Piemontese: “Lece”
  • Polish: “Lecce”
  • Portuguese: “Lecce”
  • Romanian: “Lecce”
  • Russian: “Лечче”
  • Sanskrit: “लेत्चे”
  • Sardinian: “Lecce”
  • Scots: “Lecce”
  • Serbian: “Leče”
  • Serbian: “Лече”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lecce”
  • Sicilian: “Lecci”
  • Silesian: “Lecce”
  • Sinhala: “ලේචේ”
  • Slovak: “Lecce”
  • Slovenian: “Lecce”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لچه”
  • Spanish: “Lecce”
  • Swahili: “Lecce”
  • Swedish: “Lecce”
  • Tagalog: “Lecce”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Lecce”
  • Tamil: “லெக்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Лечче”
  • Telugu: “లెస్సే”
  • Thai: “เลชเช”
  • Turkish: “Lecce”
  • Ukrainian: “Лечче”
  • Urdu: “لیچہ”
  • Venetian: “Lece”
  • Vietnamese: “Lecce”
  • Volapük: “Lecce”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lecce”
  • Welsh: “Lecce”
  • Western Panjabi: “لیچی”
  • Wu Chinese: “莱切”
  • Xhosa: “Lecce”
  • Yue Chinese: “壢車”
  • “Lecce”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Lecce”. Photo: MatthiasKabel, CC BY 2.5.