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Lecce Bike Tour
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Immerse yourself in the history and culture of Lecce on a leisurely bike tour. Pedal through the flat, bike-friendly streets and piazzas with a local guide and visit highlights like the Basilica of Santa Croce, Piazza del Duomo, and the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater. Enjoy the fresh air and flexibility of a 2-wheeled tour, and stop often to snap photos, browse local boutiques, and sample regional food and wine.
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$39.25
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$39.25
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Street Food Tour of Lecce & City Sightseeing with Local Guide
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Lecce is best known for its sumptuous baroque architecture, but the city has an equally rich cuisine worth exploring. Discover both its cultural treasures and gastronomic delights with this tour that combines a guided walk past the Basilica of Santa Croce, the cathedral, and other highlights of the historic center with stops to sample traditional specialties like savory “rustico” and “frisella” pastries, and the sweet custard-filled “pasticciotto”.
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$47.83
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$47.83
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Lecce to Cesine Protected Natural Reserve Full-Day Bike Tour
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Enjoy an up-close experience of Puglia’s picturesque countryside on this languidly paced, full-day bike tour. Meet your guide, set off from Lecce, and continue onwards to Acaya, where you’ll see its historical castle and stop for light refreshments. Then, head to the Adriatic coastline and go for a refreshing swim before visiting Le Cesine Nature Reserve: the region’s last-remaining wetland habitat. Finally, bike back to Lecce along scenic country lanes.
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$114.84
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$114.84
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Walking tour Lecce
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You'll have the opportunity to get to know a local tour guide and to walk in his company listening to the history and characteristics of Lecce.
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$30.66
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$30.66
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Lecce. Journey to discover a charming baroque
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The historic center of Lecce is one of the most interesting in Puglia. The particularity of its Baroque architecture derives from the ability of local artists and architects who, between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, have done something unique thanks to the quality of the tender local stone. Our tour will be a journey through time, from the splendor of the Roman Empire to contemporary Lecce. An elegant and refined city where churches and ancient buildings alternate artisan workshops (especially papier-mache), shops and places where you can taste typical products.
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$46.41
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$46.41
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Full day tour to Matera and Grottaglie
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Experience Southern Italy’s Murgia region with this all-day excursion to two of its prettiest towns. After a convenient hotel pickup, travel to the UNESCO-designated town of Grottaglie in a comfortable minivan with a private driver. Admire its ceramics and explore its historic center before heading to Matera, a mountainside city famous for cave dwellings that humans have called home since the Paleolithic period.
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$147.18
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$147.18

Gallipoli walking tour
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Walking tour in one of the beautiful cities of Salento, with a prepared tour guide speaking Italian and English
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$30.66
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$30.66
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Lecce Rickshaw Tour with Papier-Mâché Workshop
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Lecce is famous for its papier-mâché handicrafts and this behind-the-scenes workshop offers a fascinating insight into the unique art form. Admire landmarks such as Santa Croce Basilica, Porta Napoli, and Saint Oronzo square on a rickshaw ride; get hands on making papier-mâché crafts; then sample an array of local wines and regional specialties.
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$146.74
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$146.74
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From Lecce: Ostuni, Alberobello and Polignano a Mare Independent Tour
Independent travelers will enjoy this 3-stop tour in Puglia, which provides transportation from Lecce but allows you to explore on your own. There's no need to rent a car; just sit back and enjoy the scenery on the way to Ostuni, Alberobello, and Polignano a Mare. Explore each town on your own, with some tips from your guide if you wish.
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$131.27
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$131.27
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Full day tour in Valle d'Itria: Alberobello and Polignano a Mare
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If you love to explore independently, leave Italy’s crazy traffic to the experts and join this full-day door-to-door transport-only tour of some of Puglia’s most scenic towns and villages. Start at the pretty seaside village of Polignano a Mare; continue to Alberobello, a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its extraordinary “trulli” structures; stroll among Locorotondo’s flower-decked balconies; conclude with the “white town”, Ostuni. Tour is capped at just eight travelers.
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$147.18
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$147.18

Discover Otranto and its Countryside by Bike
Explore the lush farmlands and dramatic coastline of the Salento Peninsula by bike on this full-day small-group tour from Otranto. Ponder the ancient ruins of Giurdignano, admire the botanical gardens of Giuggianello, tuck into a typical Puglian lunch, and enjoy swimming or kayaking at Porto Badisco.
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$78.56
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Entrance ticket to the museum with private guided tour
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The site on which the Jewish Museum of Lecce stands is the fulcrum of the ancient Jewish quarter, as there was the fifteenth-century synagogue. Today its undergrounds are part of a historical itinerary accessible by the visitor. During the visit we observe the tanks used for ritual ablutions (mikwa’ot), the door jamb space in which a mezuzah was housed and the remains of the ecclesiastical building whose perimeter is substantially the same as the pre-existing synagogue.
Available languages: Italian, English, French, Spanish.
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$35.89
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$35.89

Puglia - Walking Tour of Lecce the Florence of the South
Visit the historic city of Lecce on a half-day tour from Porta Napoli
and visit of the Roman Amphitheater and more together with our guides.
Discover the heel of Italy and admire the beauty of southern Florence.
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$22.08
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$22.08
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LECCE & GALLIPOLI from Bari or customers accomodation
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discovering PUGLIA !! pick up 9,30am directly from your accomodation we will go to some of the most popular destinations in Italy!! LECCE visits the pugliese baroque city! the florence of the southern!
transport to GALLIPOLI (on the way stop on beautiful beaches!!! PUGLIA is considered the Carribee
of Europe! than visit of Gallipoli (the seacity) twice promenade (3000 years old) seems like "attached" to the sky... and a wonderful turquoise from the sea!
Enjoy!!
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$267.95
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$267.95
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Lecce Guided Walking Tour and Lunch with typical products
Nestled in Italy’s southern Apulia region, the historic city of Lecce prides itself on its fresh, local produce—with family recipes passed down the generations. On this walking tour, follow your guide through the city streets and hit to pattractios including the Basilica of Santa Croce and the Roman amphitheater ruins. Sample locally made cheeses, wines, and ‘salumi’ (cold cuts of Italian meat), and gain insight into the role food plays in Lecce society.
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$131.27
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$131.27

Lecce Private Walking Tour
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From Porta Napoli, start this exciting experience with an expert, funny, local guide, that will be there exclusively for you and ready to reply to all your questions. Walking off the beaten paths, discover the most beautiful noble palaces, like Palazzo Adorno and its façade diamond-shaped. Learn histories about the families who lived in the town in past centuries and curious anecdotes about the buildings that you will pass. See the jewels of Baroque architecture like Basilica of Santa Croce and Piazza Sant'Oronzo with the "Sedile" the old city Hall. Let yourself be attracted by the soft atmosphere in Piazza Duomo, the unique closed square with it's baroque jewels: the old Seminary, the bell tower and the church.
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$112.72
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$112.72
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Best of Lecce walking tour
Discover the stories of southern Lecce without spending a fortune on guidebooks with this morning tour of the city center. Starting from the iconic Piazza del Duomo, hear the history of this city as told through its buildings. Visit sites from across the ages, from the classical Roman amphitheater to the baroque Basilica di Santa Croce. Don’t get pushed to the back of the group, either: on this small group walking tour, get personalized attention from your guide and answers to all your questions.
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$85.86
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$85.86

Private walking tour in Lecce
Private multilingual tour guide that will lead just you discovering Lecce and its baroque art in the city center.
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$49.06
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$49.06
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Lecce Group Tour from Ionian Coast
Explore how very different, friendly and playful Baroque style can be in the honey-colored “Florence of the South”. Visit Lecce, famed city of art and birthplace of the marvelous "barocco Leccese". Besides the mesmerizing virtuously carved fine-grained honey-colored local limestone decorations of the impressing churches, monumental monasteries and renaissance and baroque style noble houses, which made Lecce so famous, the second most important and still kept alive artisanship is papier-mâché art. Discover how local craftsmen express their art in the numerous little papier-mâché "botteghe" in the historical district.
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$61.33
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$61.33

UNESCO'S Otranto half-day from Lecce or Bari
Visit the UNESCO-listed hilltown of Otranto without the hassle of coordinating bus and train schedules with this driving tour that includes round-trip transportation. Enjoy free time to explore one of Puglia’s most charming hilltowns and visit highlights like the historic cathedral and Aragon Castle. Relax over lunch (own expense) in one of the town’s traditional restaurants and shop for souvenirs before the return drive.
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$134.92
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$134.92
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7 DAYS PRIVATE TOUR PUGLIA & MATERA (hotel + transfers + guides + food & wine)
This private tour will allow you to visit the most attractive places in Puglia and Matera. It includes transfers on board a comfortable minivan with a local driver, guided tours with certified guides, selected hotels in the city center and unique local experiences
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$3,062.27
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$3,062.27
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7 days tour PUGLIA & MATERA by train for solo travellers, backpackers, couples
This tour is ideal for those traveling alone or in couple and wants to visit the most beautiful places in Puglia with a low budget, using trains and other ecological means such as bicycles
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$1,572.45
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$1,572.45
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A walk through Lecce
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We will tour the historic center of Lecce for about 2 hours. I will show you not only the most important Roman and Baroque monuments, but we will also discover some hidden corners of the city. I will tell you about its history, its traditions, its food! Lecce will surprise you!
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$42.93
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$42.93
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Lecce Street food tour and City Sightseeing
First time you visit Lecce and want to know the city and its food specialties? This tour is the perfect solution for you!
Stroll into the city center and taste the best known local street food. Your guide will tell you the history related to the main highlights, such as the Basilica of Santa Croce, considered the emblem of Lecce's baroque style, the Cathedral, and the many palaces you will find on the way. From one place to the other, you will stop and delight your palate with the most famous and tasty delicacies of Salento, like the "rustico", a soft puff pastry disc filled with mozzarella, tomato and béchamel; the "frisella", a twice-baked bread roll topped with fresh tomato and olive oil; or the pastry star "pasticciotto", a shortcrust pastry stuffed with custard. You'll also taste other fantastic samples of Salento specialties.
Take this tour either at lunch or dinner time, as it is an ideal way to do some sightseeing while having a light meal as you make your way through the city.
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$126.33
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$126.33
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