Lecce Historic Tour: Art, History, and Coffee

Immerse yourself in the beauty of Lecce’s historic center on a 2-hour guided walking tour. Explore baroque churches, Roman monuments, and charming squares while indulging in local delicacies. Book now!

Duration: 2 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Piazza del Duomo - Wonderful example of a square converted in Baroque style, it opens before us like a wing of a theater, on the left the wonderful late 17th century bell tower built by Giuseppe Zimbalo stands out over the square with its majolica dome; in the center the Cathedral with its façade characterized by a balustrade overlooked by the…
What's Included
  • Tours
  • Tea and coffee
What's Not Included
  • Entrance tickets to churches and museums
Additional Information

Tour in English
For a private tour, please contact:
Instagram: discovering_lecce
Mobile (WhatsApp/iMessage): +393287568899
Welcome! Join us for a delightful 2-hour tour through the charming streets and alleys of the historic center. Discover classic buildings, stunning squares, Baroque churches, and Roman monuments. Experience art, history,…

Location
Accademia di Belle Arti di Lecce
Via Giuseppe Libertini
our meeting point is the monumental gate Porta Rudiae
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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627brendab
Jul 5, 2025
All things considered a beautiful city - Lecce is a very elegant city to be there. Especially lots of cozy (cocktail) bars, pasticery, restaurants, department store Coin, nice luxury clothing stores, Piquardo for luxury bags and suitcases annex clothing store, jewelers shops, etc. There is plenty to get through the day. Especially cocktail bar GIOI is the place to come and be!! Super friendly service, in short don’t miss this! From the shopping streets you can walk straight into the historic part. You need a ticket to visit most cathedrals. Only available online. We were there 2 nights but it was too hot. Our next visit will be extended to 3-4 nights at the very central Mercure President hotel. Nice hotel very friendly man at check in. Luckily we had him at check-in on Monday afternoon June 23. About the service of the ladies, really all of them, can be said that they are very arrogant. Although the rooms are only with gingerbread books. Breakfast is not much. Uncozy decor, huge, presentation of the budget is quite gloomy. But we slept great, good parking, everything within walking distance and clean hotel.
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Navigateurdd
Jun 28, 2025
Very nice visit, essential guide to grasp all the beauty of the site - Very nice visit of Lecce, our guide combines humor and scholarship on the history of the city, the history of art and architecture. The city is a wonder and to visit with an excellent guide is a real bonus
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James_b
Jun 27, 2025
Interesting and fun - This walking tour takes about 2 hrs and supplies you with fun facts about Lecce ‘s history over 2000 years. Lorenzo was a great guide and showed us things we would never have discovered on our own
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Cynthia_t
Jun 16, 2025
Great Guide - Wonderful Tour - Lorenzo is an excellent guide. He is knowledgeable, enthusiastic, warm and accommodating. It was great to be hosted by a local and to learn so much in a short amount of time. With Lorenzo you can’t go wrong.
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M_rtonj2019
Jun 16, 2025
Guided tour of Lecce old town - A 2-3 hour long guided tour of the main historical sights of Lecce. Lorenzo did a great job of explaining the meaning behind the various works of (mostly baroque) art! He also did not shy away from any questions we had. The short coffee break really helped with the pacing of this tour.
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Joyce_m
Jun 15, 2025
Excellent tour with Lorenzo - Lorenzo was an excellent guide- very knowledgeable, friendly, funny and considerate. We thoroughly enjoyed the tour, learned a lot about Lecce and art history and lovely stopover for a coffee. Highly recommend Lorenzo! Best guide I have ever had.
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Tony
Jun 14, 2025
Great city tour - Lorenzo our guide was very competent and was able to convey to us the Baroque town of Lecce with all its historical backgrounds with a breeze of humor. He was warm and passionate about it. Rarely experienced such a good city tour. Great job 🤗
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707gregr
Jun 11, 2025
Awesome guide, book him. - Lorenzo was simply awesome. Genuine passion for his city. Never got the feeling he was 'mailing in' his work. Questions were answered thoroughly and understandably with such queries allowing Lorenzo to shift the focus and explore more of his knowledge base. The cafe stop was welcome with a lovely drink and nibbles had. Just be advised to put your map location in manually [Porta Rudiae] to your mapping app as the link provided by Tripadvisor/Viator is wrong, very wrong.
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Lester_d
Jun 10, 2025
Enjoyable introduction to Lecce - Enjoyed the architectural perspective of the history of Lecce. Done with humour and wit. And the role religion played in the wars.
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Lndallas
Jun 5, 2025
Definitely worth taking the tour -guide was excellent. Kept the pace moving and was very entertaining. - Lorenzo (guide) was very knowledgeable and personable. We learnt a lot about Lecce - its history and magnificent architecture. Was a great tour and I would recommend it. The stop for some local treats was very nice also.
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From $34
up to 12 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).