Patù
Sign in to savePatù (Salentino: ) is a town and comune in the province of Lecce in the Apulia region of south-east Italy.
Key facts
- Italian comune.name
- Patù
- Italian comune.official_name
- Comune di Patù
- Italian comune.image_skyline
- Patù.jpg
- Italian comune.image_shield
- Patù-Stemma.png
- Italian comune.shield_alt
- Coat of arms
- Italian comune.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Italian comune.region
- Apulia
- Italian comune.province
- (LE)
- Italian comune.frazioni
- Felloniche, Marina di San Gregorio
- Italian comune.mayor
- Gabriele Abatarusso
- Italian comune.area_total_km2
- 8.54
- Italian comune.population_total
- 1721
- Italian comune.population_as_of
- 9 October 2011
- Italian comune.population_demonym
- Patuensi
- Italian comune.elevation_m
- 124
- Italian comune.saint
- St. Michael Archangel
- Italian comune.day
- 24 June
- Italian comune.postal_code
- 73053
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Patù (Salentino: ) is a town and comune in the province of Lecce in the Apulia region of south-east Italy.
==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.