In Lecce, one can take a fascinating journey through Apulia's transportation history by visiting the Museo Ferroviario della Puglia (Apulian Railway Museum), created by a group of real and miniature railway enthusiasts formed in 1997 into the non-profit AISAF Onlus.
The Provincial Museum "Sigismondo Castromediano" is an archaeological museum in Lecce. The Picture Gallery, located on the upper floor of the building, displays paintings documenting Byzantine and Venetian influences on the work of local artists from the Middle Ages to the 18th century.
The museum located inside a medieval palace with a late Renaissance and Baroque appearance, on the site where the 15th-century synagogue stood in the center of Lecce's old Jewish quarter. Visitors are invited to follow the traces of the Jewish presence in Lecce from the Middle Ages to the present day, the legacy of Apulian Jewry in other centers of the diaspora, and the relationships between communities of different faiths in the history of the area.
Set out to discover the Leuca Caves with a spectacular boat excursion to Leuca... Cerulean, Porrano, Verdusella, Vora, and then arrive on the Adriatic at Santa Maria di Leuca. Two swimming stops are planned near two enchanting caves, Grotta del Fiume on the Ionian and Grotta del Soffio on the Adriatic.
Tour of the Grecìa Salentina between Griko, Pizzica and the Notte della Taranta
Breakfast and departure for Galatina. City of the tarantulas because of the presence of the small church of San Paolo, a legendary place where the apostle stopped and bestowed saving properties on the well water seen nearby. Lunch in a restaurant and afternoon dedicated to visiting Soleto. Center of Salentinian Greece, rich in evidence of the Hellenic passage such as the famous Byzantine church of Santo Stefano.
Learning the right processing of pasta, whether it is "orecchiette, maccheroni or sagne n'cannulate," means creating a pasta sheet that can best pick up and absorb the sauce. At the end of the course you will have the satisfaction of tasting pasta with sauce prepared together and exchanging views on the result.
Through storytelling, memory, music, art and architecture, visitors will be taken on a space-time journey to the symbolic places of the griko experience, among courtyard houses, mignani, pozzelle, oil mills, churches, frescoes, palaces, interacting with the language of the fathers and the struggle for its survival. An extraordinary heritage preserved in a dimension made up of small towns , today together as the Union of Municipalities of the Grecìa Salentina, which have kept intact the humility and sense of hospitality typical of Byzantine populations.
Cheese tasting and visit to the Pugliese Cheese Factory
Today in Salento there are numerous dairies that operate by following the ancient recipes thanks to which high quality caesar products are made. The experience in the world of Apulian dairies will consist of a theoretical and a purely practical part and will cover all stages of cheese and dairy production. Anyone who wants to will be able for a moment to step into the shoes of an Apulian dairyman by venturing into the production of typical Apulian products.