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Lecce,
located along the Italian heel (see map), offers a different types
of sceneries as for example: arid and plain fields Lecce
has As for example the white sand and the beautiful rocks beach and small cliffs.
On
these celebrations you can find the interaction between the antique
and the modern, the sacrum and the profane, as the mysterious and
enchanting "tarantate", referred to the Greek mythology
. The
Tarantate represents and antique popular exorcism symbolised
today
for a frenetic folk dance with a drums
rhythm. The
colours, the art, the sea, the food, the hospitality, are a good
reasons to encourage the national and foreigner visitors to this
noble and antique land.
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, extensive
centuries-old olive fields, and the most fertile field cultivated
with the knowledge and wisdom of the Lecce's people.
The
different and continuous invasion, suffered across the last
centuries from different cultures, give back to this area a rich
culture and folklore, showed on the different traditional
celebrations " feste patronali e sagre" during the year (principally
on summer time) 
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