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| Lecce |
Lecce, the provincial capital situated in the south-eastern part of the Salentine TAvoliere, a few kilometres from the Adriatic and Ionian seas. A farming centre (wine, cereals, vegetables, tobacco, fruit and oil) and the point where provincial road and rail communications cross. The service sector constitutes the mainstay of its economy with tourism, favoured by the artistic and architectural treasures of the city, also representing a considerable source of revenue. Wrought iron working is much practised here, as too the art of papier-maché.
The morphology and spatial structure of Lecce manifests unusual contrasts of old and new. In the 17th and 18th centuries the city was witness to expansion but to renewal, inspired by that characteristic Baroque style created by able craftsmen using the malleable "Lecce stone", which distinguishes it and has won it the name of "Baroqiue Florence". |
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