Ugento
Sign in to saveUgento (Salentino: ) is a town and comune in the province of Lecce, Apulia, southern Italy. It has a small harbour on the Gulf of Taranto of the Ionian Sea.
Key facts
- Italian comune.name
- Ugento
- Italian comune.official_name
- Comune di Ugento
- Italian comune.native_name
- Griko:
- Italian comune.image_skyline
- 469.56 - Cattedrale di Ugento.jpg
- Italian comune.image_caption
- Ugento cathedral
- Italian comune.image_shield
- Ugento-Stemma.png
- Italian comune.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Italian comune.province
- Lecce (LE)
- Italian comune.frazioni
- Gemini, Torre San Giovanni, part of Lido Marini, Torre Mozza
- Italian comune.mayor
- Massimo Lecci
- Italian comune.area_total_km2
- 100.4
- Italian comune.population_total
- 12327
- Italian comune.population_as_of
- 31 March 2012
- Italian comune.population_demonym
- Ugentini
- Italian comune.elevation_m
- 108
- Italian comune.saint
- St Vincent the Martyr
- Italian comune.day
- 22 January
- Italian comune.postal_code
- 73059
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Ugento (Salentino: ) is a town and comune in the province of Lecce, Apulia, southern Italy. It has a small harbour on the Gulf of Taranto of the Ionian Sea.
==History== thumb|right|The Piazza di Ugento The city is the ancient Uxentum, and claims to have been founded by Uxens, who is mentioned in the Eighth Book of the Aeneid. In ancient times it was an important city. In 1537 it was sacked by the Turks. Under Byzantine domination it had Greek bishops.