Along the seafront of Leuca, at the end of the nineteenth century, engineers Ruggeri and Rossi and the architect Arditi tested their creativity by building numerous villas for the bourgeoisie and the local nobility, with disparate exotic styles including: from Oriental to Arabic, from Pompeii to Gothic to Art Nouveau. If at the end of the nineteenth century, there were 43 houses, some of them did not survive the war and others have been renovated in a different way. Among the most important are Villa Ruggeri and Villa Meridiana (Art Nouveau style), Villa Mellacqua (neo-Gothic style), Villa Sangiovanni (Egyptian style) and Villa Episcopo (Chinese style). Each villa is furnished, according to the custom of those times, with a family chapel, a large garden, a park with pine and palm trees. On the sea, each villa had its own "bagnarola", a kind of small swimming bath house, made of wood or masonry, which followed the same architectural style of the villa. It deals with small areas in which bedrock a tub was carved so that the noble women of the time could cool off without being seen and most importantly so the whiteness of their skin could not be altered by exposing them to sunrays. Of the many bagnarole, very few were left today, particularly those of masonry, which can still be seen on the seafront.