The Jewish Museum of Lecce is located inside a medieval building with a late Renaissance and Baroque appearance, in the place where the 15th century synagogue stood, in the centre of the ancient Jewish quarter of Lecce. During the tour you can see the basins probably used for ritual ablutions (mikwa’ot), the doorframe of a doorway where a mezuzah was housed and the remains of the church building, whose perimeter is basically the same as the pre-existing synagogue.
The visitor is invited to follow the traces of the Jewish presence in Lecce from the Middle Ages to the present day, the legacy of Apulian Judaism in other centers of the diaspora and the relations between communities of different faiths in the history of the territory. There are also suggested itineraries specifically addressed to those interested in rediscovering the traces of the Jewish presence in Puglia.
