My wife and I just finished a month-long stay in Lecce, so please take it from me: if you plan on visiting Lecce you really should rent this place. Sweet Home Lecce is a large and comfortable apartment situated perfectly on the quiet edge of Lecce's beautiful centro storico, close to all of the sites and cafes in the old town, but also near easy parking and shopping on via Taranto.

The real reason to stay here, though, is the host, Giovanni. The Leccese are famous from their friendliness, but I would need more than the allotted 500 words to list all of the kindnesses that Giovanni paid to us in the time we stayed in his apartment. Here are a few highlights: he picked us up from the airport, and returned the next day BY HIMSELF to pick up our lost luggage. He offered to drive us around the Salento, and took us to gorgeous beaches we never would have found on our own, as well as offering (insisting really) to give us tours of Otranto and Galipolli. He responded to any questions I had about Lecce almost immediately and usually offered to come by and show me where to buy wine or do laundry himself. He invited us out to dinner and drinks with his friends many times, and always made sure to include us in the conversation despite our bad Italian. In short, from the moment we met, Giovanni treated us more like friends than tenants. Thank you!

Oh, and we even learned some Leccesse dialect: Sta bai fortissimu!