Night location: Lecce, Italy It seems as though every street corner in Lecce is adorned with a flamboyant church facade. Between the seventeenth and the eighteenth century artists flocked to the town and created their own 'decorative baroque' style known as Lecce Baroque that is characterised by a sensory overload of friezes, flowers, fruits, spiral columns and wreaths. Our Halliday Sacred Tour started in the Piazza del Duomo with a visit to the Seminary Palace...

Night location: Lecce, Italy This morning we rose early in order to catch the fast train south to the heel of the boot. The five hour journey covered a diverse range of landscapes: well populated hilltop towns that overlooked lush valleys cultivated with vineyards and orchards; dry open plains with rolls of hay scattered across the harvested paddocks; and ancient olive groves established beside the glistening blue waters of the Adriatic coast. Lecce is the main...