Lecce photos

[oursin]

Fewer than I thought, and mostly of the cathedral frontage with its wild excesses of Leccesian baroque (or possibly, phobia of blank spaces.

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[(Anonymous)]

*love*

--Sherwood

[pameladean]

Oh, I like these.

I know it's different stone and a different style, but in its impulse to squeeze in just one more excrescence or carving, it reminds me of St. Pancras Station, which I fell madly in love with for its sheer excess when I lived in London in the fall of 1974.

P.

[oursin]

I thought that I saw OTT baroque excess in Vienna last year - twirly candy-cane marble pillars! - but I think Lecce has it beat.

[tree_and_leaf]

I can't say I like baroque churches, but the pictures are fascinating nonetheless!