Museo Faggiano

In 2001 the Faggiano family started a plumbing repair in their townhouse and uncovered 2,000 years of Lecce underneath it — Roman cisterns, medieval frescoes, a Knights Templar passageway, Messapian tombs. They turned the whole building into a privately-run museum and you walk through it self-guided in forty minutes. The owners are usually around and will fill in the details if you ask. Five euros. One of the most genuinely surprising small museums in Italy.

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