Patù Explained
| Patù |
| Official Name: | Comune di Patù |
| Shield Alt: | Coat of arms |
| Pushpin Label Position: | left |
| Coordinates: | 39.85°N 38°W |
| Region: | Apulia |
| Province: | (LE) |
| Frazioni: | Felloniche, Marina di San Gregorio |
| Mayor: | Gabriele Abatarusso |
| Area Total Km2: | 8.54 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 1721 |
| Population As Of: | 9 October 2011 |
| Population Demonym: | Patuensi |
| Elevation M: | 124 |
| Saint: | St. Michael Archangel |
| Day: | 24 June |
| Postal Code: | 73053 |
| Area Code: | 0833 |
Patù (Salentino: Sicilian: Pàtu) 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.
Notes and References
- Population from ISTAT
