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province of Lecce The province of Lecce (; Salentino: ) is a province in the Apulia region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Lecce. The province is called the "Heel of Italy". Located on the Salento peninsula, it is the second most-populous province in Ap ...

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region of south-east

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Main sights

*Mother Church of St. Michael Archangel (1564), with a late Renaissance façade and a single nave. The entrance portal has the inscription ''Terribilis est locus iste'' ("Terrible Is This Place"). *Church of San Giovanni Battista, in Byzantine-Romanesque style (10th-11th centuries) *Church of the Madonna di Vereto. *Crypt of Sant'Elia, built by

Basilian monks Basilian monks are Greek Catholic monks who follow the rule of Basil the Great, bishop of Caesarea (330–379). The term 'Basilian' is typically used only in the Catholic Church to distinguish Greek Catholic monks from other forms of monastic ...

in the 8th-9th centuries. *Torre del Fortino, the last surviving of the four towers of the destroyed castle. *Archaeological site of Vereto, a

Messapi The Messapians were an Iapygian tribe who inhabited Salento in classical antiquity. Two other Iapygian tribes, the Peucetians and the Daunians, inhabited central and northern Apulia respectively. All three tribes spoke the Messapian language, ...

c ancient town *''Centopietre'' ("Hundred Stones"), a tomb-mausoleum of a knight who was killed by the Saracens before a battle fought nearby in 877.

References

Cities and towns in Apulia Localities of Salento {{Puglia-geo-stub