Breakfast this morning at the local bar/pasticceria consisted of cappuccinos and our first taste of a cornetto, pasticciotto and rusticci lechese.
After breakfast Lyn was still feeling wobbly but we set out to explore Lecce and to find some laundry liquid. We found far too many baroque churches, basilicas and cathedrals than seemed possible. This is partly because we were walking in circles, but mostly because there are a lot of them.
While looking for the duomo we walked into the funeral of a young man whose coffin was being carried through a vast crowd of mourners. Every so often the procession burst into applause.
We also found the remains of the Roman amphitheatre. Lyn found the randomness of a first century ruin amongst the baroque and modern buildings particularly arresting.
Later I went out to find an ATM and found another Roman theatre. Also a Banksy!
I took Lyn out to see the theatre and then we checked out the neighbouring gallery/museum.
In a square we found gelato and a famous clock.
We finished our explorations with a proper visit to the Basilica. It is not in a piazza so it leaps out at you suddenly in the narrow street.
A little later we were walking home and a kid was playing football outside ... very Italian.
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