If after a long walk through the beautiful buildings, your palate asks you to savor the  local flavors and tastes, visit us in the heart of Lecce Via Cesare Battisti, 4.

Will be welcomed in a gentle and refined restaurant, furnished with pleasant sobriety and lights, while under your eyes will roll on menu's pages  with simple and tasty dishes that have made the gastronomic history of our land.

The history of our city
Lecce, chief town of province, can be reached from the highway Bari-Lecce or with the train on the "Adriatica" railway.Its origin trace back to the messapic city of Sybar, subsequently renamed as Lupiae, Licea, then Lexete and finally Lecce.
Passed under the romanic domain it had its maximum expansion during Marco Aurelio's empire. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire Lecce was sacked by the Ostrogoth king Totila. It has been invaded by Saracens, Lombards, Hungarians and Slavs and then it has been dominated by Bisanzio in the X century. After a decline in Longobard epoch bloomed again under the Normans.
The city preservs several testimonies of the various epochs, like the messapic ceramics and vases, the roman theatre, the great amphitheatre (second century of the christian era), the cathedral entirely rebuilt from the 1659 to the 1670; the most prestigious monument of the norman epoch (the S. Niccolò and Cataldo church of the 1180) in which we can find several styles as romanic, bizantine and moresco. Don't neglect Saint Oronzo square, the ancient market place, the column that marked the end of the Appian way. Santa Croce's church trace back to the Renaissance (1532), with subsequent baroque elements that enrich the front.
The Celestini's Convent, the episcopal seminary, and other important churches belong to the baroque period. Also the militar buildings deserve to be mentioned: Belloloco's tower (sec. XIII-XIV), Torre del Parco (1419), the superb Angevin Castle, the sixteenth century Arc of Triumph in honour of Carlo V. Very important are the palaces Adorno, Palmieri, Rollo, Tresca, d'Aynio.
Lecce deserves to be visited!