Basilica of Santa Croce, Lecce

Basilica di Santa Croce (Italian for 'Basilica of the Holy Cross') is a Baroque style church that was completed in 1695 in Lecce, Apulia, Italy.

Walter VI, Count of Brienne, had founded a monastery in the 14th century in the current church.

The church has a richly decorated façade, with six smooth columns supporting an entablature, with animals, grotesque figures and vegetables, and has a large rose window.

[1] The animals under the balustrade would symbolize the Christian powers which participated in the battle: the dragon was the symbol of the Boncompagni, family of Pope Gregory XIII; the griffon the Republic of Genoa, Hercules the Grand Duke of Tuscany The interior, on the Latin cross plan, originally had a nave and four aisles, two of which were turned into side chapels in the 18th century.

The church has seventeen altars: the main one has a decorated portal with the coat of arms of the Adorni family, whose tombs were inside the basilica.