Monument sights in Lecce
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Colonna di Sant'Oronzo
Beside the sunken arena of the Roman amphitheatre rises the Colonna di Sant'Oronzo, a copperplate statue of Lecce's patron saint perched precariously on the second pillar of the Appian Way. It was supposedly donated to the city of Lecce as a sign of thanks to Sant'Oronzo (Lecce's patron saint) for saving Brindisi from the plague in 1656.
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Obelisk
Just outside Porta Napoli, a commemorative obelisk recalls another Spanish overlord, Ferdinand I, King of the Two Sicilies. It was carved by local sculptor Vito Carluccio in 1822-26, and depicts panels of mythological and historical symbolism relating to Lecce, Taranto, Brindisi and Gallipoli, the four districts of the Terra d'Otranto.
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