I discovered Italy’s ‘golden’ city that’s just like Florence without the crowds

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The city has an ancient history that stretches back more than 2,000 years (Picture: Getty Images)

‘The best way to experience Lecce is to walk around looking up.’

That’s what I was told shortly after arriving in the second-largest city in Italy’s Puglia region, often described as the ‘Florence of the South’.

And not because it’s a place filled with skyscrapers like New York or Duba...

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