The 10 Best Specialty Museums in Lecce, Puglia

The collection is kept in the house-museum of Francesco and Silvana Spada. It has over 850 instruments, a rich library, numerous manuscripts and an important iconography that make it easy and interesting to visit. Enter in a house-museum is a privilege, you have the chance to try the instruments, discuss, exchange views with a cup of coffee offered by the owner.

Simple and ingenious ... A unique place where you can learn the roots of Taranta and Pizzica, exciting the bowls with Live Spiders, including the most important one where an extraordinary spider is kept: "La Tarantola". This is the queen that gave rise to the myth of the taranta, legend wants her bite to create a state of crazy tranches, from which it can only be healed through the involvement of

The Railway Museum of Apulia Lecce is an important collection of tools and other objects that are ideally trace the history of railway Puglia. Inside are 32 antique vehicles of mixed age and several railway companies, from FS to FSE passing the Tobacco Factory of Lecce, in addition to this you can also see up close the historic train "Salento Express".

MUSA is an University Museum that exhibits archaeological remains from Prehistory to Middle Ages together with reconstrunctions of ancient contexts and multimedia contributions. Its innovative exhibition shows the research activities conducted in Salento and in other areas of the Mediterranean basin (Malta, Sudan, Turkey, Syria, Iran) by the archaeologists and historians of the University of Salento

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The museum is located in a medieval building, which now presents itself as a late 16th – 17th century palazzo. It encompasses the remains of a 15th century synagogue, which was right in the centre of the Jewish district in Lecce. Visitors to the museum can see the pools that in all likelihood were once used for ritual bathing (mikwa’ot), the doorpost groove that housed the sacred parchment with religious verses from the Scriptures (mezuzah), as well as significant remains of the church that later partially incorporated the earlier synagogue. Visitors are invited to follow the threads linking the Jewish presence in Lecce from the Middle Ages to the present; the legacy of Apulian Judaism visible within other communities of the diaspora, as well as the threads linking Judaism with other faith communities in and around Lecce. We also provide themed tours for tourists interested in discovering the history of the Jewish presence in Apulia.