Lecce
Lecce is a city in the Apulia region of Italy. Lecce has been dubbed "the Florence of the south". Whereas many people skip it in favour of the nearby beach towns of the Salento peninsula, this city, distinguished by its elaborate style of baroque buildings, has at least a couple of days of attractions worth seeing.
- City with about 94,800 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 50 metres (160 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code LCC
- …is also known as “Lecce, Italy”
- Description: Italian comune
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lecce Cathedral and Lecce railway station.
Lecce Cathedral
Lecce Cathedral is the cathedral of the city of Lecce…
Lecce railway station
Lecce railway station serves the city and comune of Lecce, in the region of Apulia, Southern Italy.
Basilica of Santa Croce, Lecce
The Basilica of the Holy Cross is a Baroque-style church completed in 1695 in Lecce, Apulia, Italy.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Surbo and Merine.
Surbo
Town
Surbo is a town and comune in the province of Lecce in the Apulia region of south-east Italy.
Lecce
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Latitude
40.357° or 40° 21′ 25″ north
Longitude
18.1718° or 18° 10′ 19″ east
UN/LOCODE
IT LCC
Open location code
8FGW954C+RP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
Satellite Map
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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: “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”
- 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 Frisian: “Lecce”
- Western Panjabi: “لیچی”
- Wu Chinese: “莱切”
- Xhosa: “Lecce”
- Yue Chinese: “壢車”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Lecce”.
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Super Carcere and Masseria Seminario.
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