Lecce
Lecce is the southernmost province in Apulia, the easternmost one in Italy. It is called "the Heel of Italy" due to its location on the Salento peninsula, of which it represents the southern half.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Lecce and Otranto.
Lecce
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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.
Otranto
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Otranto is a town of about 5,500 people in the Apulia region of Italy, on the Adriatic coast of Salento peninsula. It is the easternmost town of Italy.
Gallipoli
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Gallipoli is a town of 20,600 inhabitants in the Apulia region of Italy, on the west coast of Salento Peninsula, facing the Ionian Sea. Gallipoli has become one of the main Italian tourist destinations for summer holidays, because of its beach resorts, enchanting historic center and vibrant nightlife.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Nardò and Specchia.
Nardò
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Nardò is a city of 30,000 inhabitants in the province of Lecce in the Apulia region of Italy. It is located in the Salento peninsula, with miles of rocky coastline on the Ionian Sea.
Specchia
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Specchia is a town and comune in the province of Lecce in the Apulia region of southeast Italy. Located 53 km south of the province's capital, Specchia is nestled atop the Serra Magnone, one of the highest points in lower Salento.
Salve
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Salve is a town of 4,500 inhabitants in the Apulia region in Italy. Its territory comprises 7 km of sandy coastline on the Ionian Sea. The village has traces of an old Castle which resisted several Turkish sieges.
Torre Vado
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Torre Vado is a village of the Apulia region in Italy. It lays on the shore of the Ionian Sea, just 7 km north of the southernmost tip of the region.
Santa Maria di Leuca
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Santa Maria di Leuca is a village of the Apulia region in Italy. It belongs to the municipality of Castrignano del Capo and represents the southernmost inhabited centre of the region.
Lecce
- Type: province of Italy with 796,000 residents
- Description: province of Italy
- Also known as: “Lecce province”, “province of Lecce”, “Province of Lecce”, and “provincia di Lecce”
- Neighbors: Brindisi and Taranto
- Location: Apulia, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Lecce” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Provinca e Leçes”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة لتشه”
- Armenian: “Լեչե”
- Asturian: “Provincia de Lecce”
- Azerbaijani: “Lesse əyaləti”
- Basque: “Lecceko probintzia”
- Bavarian: “Provinz Lecce”
- Belarusian: “Леччэ”
- Belarusian: “Лечэ, правінцыя”
- Belarusian: “Лечэ”
- Belarusian: “правінцыя Лечэ”
- Bengali: “লেসে-র প্রদেশ”
- Breton: “proviñs Lecce”
- Breton: “Proviñs Lecce”
- Bulgarian: “Лече”
- Catalan: “província de Lecce”
- Catalan: “Província de Lecce”
- Cebuano: “Lecce”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای لێچە”
- Chinese: “Lecce Séng”
- Chinese: “壢車省”
- Chinese: “莱切省”
- Chinese: “萊切省”
- Chinese: “雷契省”
- Czech: “Provincie Lecce”
- Danish: “Lecce”
- Danish: “Province of Lecce”
- Dutch: “Lecce”
- Dutch: “Provincie Lecce”
- Esperanto: “provinco Lecce”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Lecce”
- Esperanto: “provinco Leĉo”
- Estonian: “Lecce provints”
- Finnish: “Leccen maakunta”
- French: “province de Lecce”
- French: “Province de Lecce”
- Galician: “Provincia de Lecce”
- Georgian: “ლეჩეს პროვინცია”
- German: “Provinz Lecce”
- Greek: “Επαρχία του Λέτσε”
- Gujarati: “લેકકે પ્રાંત”
- Hebrew: “לצ’ה”
- Hindi: “लेसी प्रांत”
- Hungarian: “Lecce megye”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Lecce”
- Interlingua: “Provincia de Lecce”
- Interlingua: “provincia Lecce”
- Irish: “Cúige Lecce”
- Italian: “Lecce”
- Italian: “provincia di Lecce”
- Italian: “Provincia di Lecce”
- Japanese: “レッチェ県”
- Javanese: “Provinsi Lecce”
- Kannada: “ಲೆಕ್ಸೆ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Korean: “레체도”
- Ladin: “Provinzia de Lecce”
- Ladino: “Provinsia de Lecce”
- Latin: “Provincia Lupiensis”
- Latvian: “Lečes province”
- Ligurian: “Provinsa de Lecce”
- Lithuanian: “Lečės provincija”
- Lombard: “Pruvincia de Lecce”
- Luxembourgish: “Provënz Lecce”
- Malay: “Wilayah Lecce”
- Marathi: “लेक्सेचे प्रांत”
- Mazanderani: “برشا اوستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lecce Séng”
- Northern Frisian: “Lecce (Prowins)”
- Northern Frisian: “Lecce”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Provinsen Lecce”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Provinsen Lecce”
- Norwegian: “Lecce”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Província de Lecce”
- Ossetian: “Лечче (провинци)”
- Ossetian: “Лечче”
- Persian: “استان لچه”
- Piemontese: “Provincia ëd Lece”
- Polish: “Prowincja Lecce”
- Portuguese: “Lecce”
- Romanian: “Provincia Lecce”
- Russian: “Лечче”
- Scots: “Province o Lecce”
- Serbian: “Лече”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lecce”
- Sicilian: “Pruvincia di Lecci”
- Sinhala: “ලෙසේ පළාත”
- Slovenian: “Lecce”
- Slovenian: “Pokrajina Lecce”
- Spanish: “provincia de Lecce”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Lecce”
- Swedish: “Lecce”
- Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Lecce”
- Tamil: “லேக்ஸ் மாகாணம்”
- Telugu: “లెచె ప్రావిన్స్”
- Telugu: “లెచె రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดเลชเช”
- Turkish: “Lecce ili”
- Turkish: “Lecce”
- Ukrainian: “Лечче”
- Ukrainian: “Провінція Лечче”
- Urdu: “صوبہ لیچہ”
- Uzbek: “Lecce”
- Venetian: “Provincia de Lece”
- Vietnamese: “Lecce”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lecce”
- Welsh: “Talaith Lecce”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع لیچی”
- Wu Chinese: “莱切省”
- Yue Chinese: “壢車省”
- “ma lili Lese”
- “Provinge de Lecce”
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