Porta Lecce is the main surviving gate of Brindisi's medieval fortifications, a solid sixteenth-century arch at the southern edge of the old town marking the start of the road toward Lecce. The gate was part of a defensive circuit built under the Aragonese, and though most of the walls have long since been absorbed into the urban fabric, the gate still stands in reasonable condition.
The arch is decorated with the Habsburg eagle and local heraldic devices, and the inner face has remnants of an older medieval structure. It is not a grand monument — Brindisi's gates never had the budget for the baroque treatment that Lecce lavished on its public buildings — but it gives a good sense of how the old city was enclosed, and the surrounding streets have kept more of their medieval alignment than most of the centre.