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Lecce

Lecce

Those who have a dislike for the Baroque style should either avoid Lecce or invest in an industrial-strength blindfold - the buildings are best described as exuberant.

The flowery style is an architectural fashion which owes much of its popularity to circumstance - the local sandstone is easily carved into intricate patterns which harden with age. The town rewards those who linger a while, with Roman remains among the later churches whose patrons brought lira to Lecce.

True, not all of the buildings are all there - the amphitheatre on the main Piazza Sant' Oronzo has been left especially denuded by the storage of its frescoes in a nearby museum - but it's still a pleasing place to amble around, as those football fans who made the long trek to this most distant of mainland teams will have no doubt found.

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