Lecce Street Food and Sightseeing Tour

Is the first time you visit Lecce and want to know the city and its food specialties? This outdoor street food tour is perfect for you!
Stroll into the city center and taste the best known local street food. Your guide will tell you the histories related to the main highlights such as the Basilica of Santa Croce, considered the emblem of Lecce baroque style, the Cathedral and many palaces you will find on the way. From a highlight to another, you will stop and delight your palate with the most famous and tasty delicacies of Salento, like the "rustico": soft puff pastry disc filled with mozzarella, tomato and bechamel, "frisella": roll bread, twice-baked and topped with fresh tomato, olive oil, or the pastry star "pasticciotto": a short pastry stuffed with custard and other fantastic sample of Salento specialties.

Choose to take this tour either at lunch or dinner time, as it is an ideal way to do some sightseeing while having a light meal as you make your way through the city.

Meeting Point

Piazza Sant'Oronzo

Piazza Sant'Oronzo, 73100 Lecce LE, Italy

Sotto il grande orologio a muro, all'inizio di via Trinchese
Questo meeting point è solo per il tour delle 8.30pm

Porta San Biagio

Piazza D'Italia, 73100 Lecce LE, Italy

Down the arch of Porta San Biagio
This meeting point is only for 11am and 6.00pm tour

Not included:

• Gratuities (optional)
• Drinks

What to expect:

Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes

Porta San Biagio

Piazza Italia, incrocio Via Marino Brancaccio, Lecce, 73100

You will meet our guide here, down the big arch, that represents one of the three old main entrances of the city

15 minutes

Chiesa di San Matteo

Via Dei Perroni 29, , Lecce, 73100

This church is important for its façade: convex in the lower part and concave in the upper part

Pass by without stopping

Piazza del Duomo

Lecce, 73010

The peculiarity of this square is that it's closed, with only one entrance. Inside you can admire the wonderful façade of old bishopric. In the night you will enjoy the special atmosphere coming from the lighting on buildings

30 minutes

Porta Napoli

Via Adua, Altezza Piazzetta Arco di Trionfo, Lecce, 73100

Porta Napoli is the second entrance to old town together with Porta San Biagio and Porta Rudiae. It takes this name because from this point begins the route to get to Naples

15 minutes

Palazzo dei Celestini

Via Umberto I 13, Lecce, 73100

Together with Santa Croce basilaca that stands by its side, they are the emblem of local Barocco style: facades full of minute decorations to resemble a thick embroidered sheet

Pass by without stopping

Piazza Sant'Oronzo

Piazza Sant'Oronzo, Lecce, 73100

While discovering the main highlights of Lecce in old town, you will also anjoy the most famous samples of local specialties, like rustico, a saldy puff pastry snack, pasticciotto, emblem of local pastries and frisella, typical fast food of summer light lunch and dinner

30 minutes