Festivals in Lecce

Every year, between Christmas and Epiphany, the historic center of Specchia—one of the 'Most Beautiful Villages in Italy' in the province of...

Every year, between Christmas and Epiphany, the historic center of Casarano transforms into a grand living nativity scene. The "Living Nativ...

The Living Passion of Matino is an itinerant sacred performance that transforms the historic center of this Salento village into a vast open...

The Lizza Summer Festival is the musical highlight that brings summer in Lizzanello to life, a town in the Salento region of the province of...

Lo Sport di Tutti - The Inclusion Olympics is Italy's largest inclusive and Paralympic sports event, hosted in San Donato di Lecce, in the h...

The Locomotive Jazz Festival is the premier summer jazz event in Salento: a traveling festival that winds through the villages, archaeologic...

Every summer, the Locomotive Jazz Festival stops in Leverano, in the heart of the Salento region near Lecce, for one of its signature free s...

The Locomotive Jazz Festival was founded in 2006 in Sogliano Cavour, a small town in the Grecìa Salentina area of the Lecce province, by sax...

Every autumn, the small village of Palmariggi, in the province of Lecce, celebrates its iconic fruit with "Lu Paniri te e Site," the pomegra...

Luci nel Bosco is the most evocative evening of the Festival of Cinema of the Real and the Unreal, the Salento-based festival dedicated to d...

In Marittima, a coastal village of Diso in the heart of the Salento region, the Luggiana Festival celebrates the rustic, traditional peasant...

Lumina World is Puglia's first Park of Wonders of Light, set within the enchanting Belloluogo Park in Lecce. Every evening, the city's histo...

MA/IN Festival is an international event dedicated to experimental sound art, electroacoustic music, and audiovisual arts. Organized by the...

In Soleto, in the heart of the Grecìa Salentina, the historic center transforms into a spellbinding journey through history and legend. Star...

Every July 2nd, Gallipoli, in the heart of the Ionian Salento, celebrates its special and perpetual patron saint: the Madonna del Canneto. A...

In Giuliano di Lecce, a village of Castrignano del Capo, the Madonna del Canneto Festival and Fair is a summer highlight that has been celeb...

In mid-July, Miggiano, a small town in the Lower Salento area of the Lecce province, celebrates the Madonna del Carmine and its co-patron sa...

Every July 16th, Surbo, a small town in the Salento region near Lecce, celebrates the Madonna del Carmine Fair. This traditional event blend...