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Country
  
Italy

Province / Metropolitan city
  
Lecce (LE)

Demonym(s)
  
Patuensi

Province
  
Province of Lecce

Postal code
  
73053

Region
  
Apulia

Elevation
  
124 m (407 ft)

Area
  
8 km²

Local time
  
Friday 9:05 PM

Dialling code
  
0833

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Frazioni
  
Felloniche, Marina di San Gregorio

Weather
  
16°C, Wind N at 10 km/h, 88% Humidity

Patù is a town and comune in the province of Lecce in the Apulia region of south-east Italy.

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Main sights

  • Mother Church of St. Michael Archangel (1564), with a late Renaissance façade and a single nave. The entrance portal has the inscription Terribilis est locus iste ("Terrible Is This Place").
  • Church of San Giovanni Battista, in Byzantine-Romanesque style (10th-11th centuries)
  • Church of the Madonna di Vereto.
  • Crypt of Sant'Elia, built by Basilian monks in the 8th-9th centuries.
  • Torre del Fortino, the last surviving of the four towers of the destroyed castle.
  • Archaeological site of Vereto, a Messapic ancient town
  • Centopietre ("Hundred Stones"), a tomb-mausoleum of a knight who was killed by the Saracens before a battle fought nearby in 877.

    • References

    Patù Wikipedia
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