The Berkeley Lecce
Programme 2024
Sunday September 8th
Tour starts at 11:00 am
We have hired a bus to get to the masseria all together!
We will meet at Piazza Carmelo Bene (Foro Boario) at 9:30 and get back there at 15:00.
Contribution for transport and refreshments:
members €5 per person
non-members €15 per person
Please book your place here
max 20 people
Guided tour of Patience Gray's masseria
Patience Gray was the first writer to introduce Salento cooking to the world. She wrote the cult food classic Honey from a Weed, recently translated into Chinese, directly from her kitchen close to Presicce-Acquarica.
Her son, Nicholas Gray, will take us on a 'living museum' tour around the rustic masseria, the wild gardens and sculpture park she shared with the artist Norman Mommens, sculptor "at the end of the world".
Refreshments afterwards.
Friday June 7th
at 18:00
at Susan's place
(talk and picnic)
Please book your seat here
and bring along some food/drinks
Antonio Verrio,
the internationally acclaimed artist from Lecce
Hilda Caffery and Susan Arculus
Visit to the Cutrofiano Pottery Museum
with lunch at Pesce Frittu e Baccalà
Museum visit + lunch:
Berkeley members €15
non members €33
Museum visit only:
Berkeley members free
non members €3
Finland balancing between East and West
Juha and Päivi Järvelä
both retired, continuing studies in military history and industrial pharmacy
The Mediterranean:
everything you didn't know.
From mythology to biodiversity and beyond.
Senem Önen Tarantini
Marine biologist and researcher for the European Research Infrastructure Consortium
Friday January 19th
at 18:15
at Museo Castromediano
viale Gallipoli, 31
Lecce 73100
Please book your seat here