Colors and flavors of Lecce in spring
It is spring. Temperatures are mild and the sun is just waiting to caress our skin. The season that acts as a prelude to summer is the ideal time to organize more or less long trips, weekends and special tours, to discover the most beautiful cities in Italy. Lecce, like the entire Salento, is a natural set for any kind of trip.
Planning one, foretasting its stages, is already a very exciting experience: the Leopard Village Saturday. Imagining Lecce and Salento, in anticipation of a tour, gives intense sensations. Especially when the images created overlap with the actual journey, with the moment when one really touches the Lecce stone, treads the Salento land, fertile with fruits and legends; admires its sea, in its changing colors. Although then the shades of turquoise almost always win out over the others, perhaps because they are less elusive to the human eye.
Lecce welcomes visitors with the dazzling color of its Baroque buildings, even more splendid in the spring sunlight. And then there is music: the spring concerts organized by the City Council in collaboration with Oles (the Lecce and Salento Symphony Orchestra). A cultural proposal of great appeal (forty concerts, more than twenty of which are held in Lecce), which starts on March 31, at the Paisiello Theater.
Tourists and travelers alike can literally see spring blooming on the terraces of many homes, not just in Lecce. Salento localities are full of floral tributes to the life. The 'music,' in this case, is that offered by flowers. With their scents, they hang from the balustrades to frame the day of residents and travelers alike.
As for the Baroque of which Lecce is the capital, architectural masterpieces can also be seen in places like Galatina and Gallipoli (to name two of the many examples that come to mind). Churches, city gates, palaces formerly owned by the area's noble families shine in the spring light. Olive trees are another powerful source of color. Travelers can walk the roads associated with a particular extra virgin olive oil and encounter centuries-old trees.
You can also rent bikes, to get to the beaches, which at this time of year are free spaces and seem even bigger. Just white sand and sea. Sky, sea and rocks. Wild and unspoiled nature.
Excellent Lecce/Salentine cuisine completes the travel experience, especially if you choose a Day Trip or a Rosy Smart City Tours. What do you eat in and around Lecce? Amazing dishes such as ciciri e tria, fava bean puree with wild chicory, octopus alla pignata, turcinieddhri or gnummareddhi, friselle, pucce, panzerotti and rustici leccesi. The Galatina Gallipoli Day Trip is a six-hour immersion in the western Salento. Galatina and Gallipoli are two pearls of Puglia, with plenty of history to tell and a dreamy sea. Plus the Day Trip is the perfect opportunity to taste Salento specialties. The sweet one is called pasticciotto. It is love at first bite. Like Lecce and Salento. Love at first sight.
