Events calendar

LecceEcclesiae

Piazza Duomo

An intense and fascinating journey into the history and sacred art of Lecce. LecceEcclesiae is the path in the heart of the historic center, between the different sites of the curia that makes the churches and their goods accessible, every day non-stop. A service commissioned...

Abyss and Horizon/ Justin Hofman

Castello Carlo V

What is the health status of the oceans? It is a question we have only recently learned to ask ourselves and still too little. For some it is almost too late. According to a recent study by Goletta Verde, 96 percent of the trash floating in the sea is plastic, and if action is not taken now, within three decades it will take the place ...

Francesco De Matteis (1852-1917)

MUST

"His small figures, his delightful groups, almost all reproducing Neapolitan costumes, had a special feature: they were recognized even from a distance, at first sight, without having to take a look at the signature". Thus wrote...

Abbazia di Santa Maria di Cerrate

Since 2012 it has been the only property in Puglia managed directly by the FAI. The abbey of Santa Maria di Cerrate, today a treasure trove of art and culture, once a melting pot of knowledge and religions, abbey, scriptorium, and then a flourishing...

Ex Opis

Must Off Gallery

The Ospedale Psichiatrico Interregionale Salentino, known by the people of Lecce today as ‘Ex OPIS’, was completely decommissioned in 1998. Two years later, in 2000, Loredana Moretti crossed its threshold, grasping her camera and armed with her artist's sensitivity...

The other sculpture

Fondazione Biscozzi Rimbaud

Nature and the relationship with man. And viceversa. They have always been at the center of Salvatore Sava's artistic research, together with the territory, the Salento one, which surrounds him, calls him, urges him to plumb his inscrutable souls. “Salvatore Sava. The other sculpture ", is the exhibition...

Visits to the Roman Amphitheatre

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It can be admired every day and at any time, simply by looking out from the balustrade that surrounds it a few steps from the central Piazza Sant'Oronzo. But, before the construction work that will restore it to its ancient splendour begins, the Roman Amphitheatre... 

Visits to the Roman Theatre

In the heart of the historic centre, nestled between the narrow streets and alleys, the Roman Theatre seems to suddenly blossom intact and almost complete. Built in the 2nd century A.D., it suffered the oblivion of forgetfulness for some time and remained buried among gardens and palaces, literally...

Visit to the City Walls

Mura Urbiche

It is good to take a step back and admire them first from the outside, from the herb paths that give Lecce's imposing Urban Walls a gentle, fragrant crown. Until a few years ago there was beaten earth and parked cars in their place. Even before that, many remember, the city's first soccer field ...

Antonio D'Andrea. Art craft project

Biblioteca Bernardini

That in Lecce, in addition to Lecce stone, wrought iron was also "noble" was perhaps better known in the second half of the twentieth century. The passing of the years has then clouded this art, as old as the history of man but, on closer inspection, the traces of this ...

Visit to the City Walls

Mura Urbiche

It is good to take a step back and admire them first from the outside, from the herb paths that give Lecce's imposing Urban Walls a gentle, fragrant crown. Until a few years ago there was beaten earth and parked cars in their place. Even before that, many remember, the city's first soccer field ...

Lonely song of new Penelope/ Annamaria Colomba

OgniBene biblioteca creativa

In the groove of epic and classical writing, Annamaria Colomba's verses contained in the volume "Canto solitario di Penelope nuova" (ed. L'Officina delle parole) echo in the spaces of the Ogni Bene library for the...

 

Visit to the City Walls

Mura Urbiche

It is good to take a step back and admire them first from the outside, from the herb paths that give Lecce's imposing Urban Walls a gentle, fragrant crown. Until a few years ago there was beaten earth and parked cars in their place. Even before that, many remember, the city's first soccer field...

JAF/I Siciliani  

Chiostro dei Teatini

The sixth edition of JAF, the Jazz Around Festival directed by Maurizio Petrelli, is dedicated to the female artistic universe. JAF promotes the culture of jazz music, both Italian and world-wide, and brings original projects ...