{"id":151742,"date":"2026-10-05T04:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T04:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/?p=151742"},"modified":"2026-10-05T04:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T04:31:16","slug":"photograpy-architecture-lecce-in-southeastern-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/?p=151742","title":{"rendered":"photograpy architecture Lecce in southeastern Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/?page_id=151408\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"151408\">Lecce<\/a><\/strong>, city, Puglia (Apulia) <em>regione,<\/em> southeastern Italy. It lies on the Salentina peninsula, or \u201cheel\u201d of Italy, east of Taranto. Possibly built on the site of the ancient Roman town of Lupiae, <a href=\"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/?page_id=151408\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"151408\">Lecce<\/a> was contested by the Byzantines, Lombards, and Saracens after the fall of the Roman Empire. It became a diocese in the 6th century and was captured and elevated to a countship by the Normans in the mid-11th century. The city passed in 1463 to the Aragonese kings of Naples, who fortified it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/architecture-Lecce-03-08-2026-DSC_8612-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-151441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/architecture-Lecce-03-08-2026-DSC_8612-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/designjaap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/architecture-Lecce-03-08-2026-DSC_8612-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/designjaap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/architecture-Lecce-03-08-2026-DSC_8612-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/designjaap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/architecture-Lecce-03-08-2026-DSC_8612.jpg 1444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Roman amphitheatre in <a href=\"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/?page_id=151408\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"151408\">Lecce<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The city\u2019s classical remains include an underground burial chamber of the 4th century BC and a Roman amphitheatre. Lecce flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries and has many examples of Apulian Baroque architecture; many of its buildings are built of the characteristic pietra leccese<em>,<\/em> a light yellow, easily worked limestone. The cathedral, the Basilica of Santa Croce, and the Church of SS. Niccolo e Cataldo are notable, all rebuilt in the Baroque style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is a photographic impression of the city of <a href=\"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/?page_id=151408\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"151408\">Lecce<\/a> in Southern Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecce, city, Puglia (Apulia) regione, southeastern Italy. It lies on the Salentina peninsula, or \u201cheel\u201d of Italy, east of Taranto. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-berichten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151742"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151752,"href":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151742\/revisions\/151752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}