Visit Lecce

A whole town of trulli — conical drystone houses found nowhere else, white and strange in the Puglian sun

Puglia's lively port capital — a tangle of old-town alleys, orecchiette drying in doorways, and San Nicola's bones

A city built on water with no cars — gondolas, Byzantine mosaics, and getting happily lost in the back canals

Fashion, finance and Leonardo's Last Supper — plus the most extravagant Gothic cathedral in Italy

Stack 28 centuries into one city: Forum, Colosseum, Pantheon, Sistine Chapel, and the best carbonara on earth

The world's smallest state holds its biggest art: St Peter's, the Vatican Museums and the Sistine ceiling

Climb 251 spiralling steps up the world's most famous architectural mistake — tilting since 1173

Eat dinner inside a limestone sea cave in Puglia, the Adriatic glowing below your table