Lecce is the spiritual, cultural and economic center of Salento. The city is located to 11 kilometers of the adriáticas coasts and to 23 of the ionic ones. She was capital historical and economic of Salento for his position in the peninsula, true bridge to the east. It is by that in the past many populations they were alternated in the city. It was the base of the Bizantino empire and historical capital of the baroque art. The climate is typically Mediterranean: dry in smooth summer and in winter. In the territory of Puglia (the region of Lecce) rains are very little. Only in winter there are some drizzles. The Puglia is the region with less rain in Italy.
The Capital of Salento has monuments admired by all: buildings constructed between end of 'the 500, when the style of the Renaissance was on the verge of flowing in the Baroque one, and principles of the '700, when the Baroque one returned to smoother forms. It was during such period when Lecce became rich, thanks to the patronage of the Church, its ecclesiastical buildings more fastuosos. Thus the complex was born of the Seat of the Cathedral with the Palace of the Seminary, the Pericope, the Cathedral and Torre Campanaria, the Basilica of the Rosary, the Churches of Clear S., S. Matteo, of Thanks and the Basilica of S. Croce, more important monument of the period. Lecce only has a tourist airport. The international airport closest is the one of the city of Bari, that is connected with all the Italian cities and directly with the bigger European cities.