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Galatina

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Galatina (; ; ), known before the unification of Italy as San Pietro in Galatina, is a town and (municipality) in the Province of Lecce in Apulia, southern Italy. It is situated about south of the city of Lecce.

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Galatina is a town in the Province of Lecce in the Apulia region of southern Italy, located a short distance south of the city of Lecce. Before Italy's unification, it was known as San Pietro in Galatina.

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Within Vinony's link graph, Galatina is referenced by 214 other articles, and connects out to Italy, Greece and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.

It sits within the topics Cities and towns in Apulia, Localities of Salento and Municipalities of the Province of Lecce.

Its subject is documented across 54 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Italian comune.name
Galatina
Italian comune.official_name
Comune di Galatina
Italian comune.image_skyline
Piazza_Galatina.jpg
Italian comune.image_shield
Galatina-Stemma.png
Italian comune.shield_alt
Coat of arms
Italian comune.pushpin_label_position
left
Italian comune.region
Apulia
Italian comune.province
Lecce (LE)
Italian comune.frazioni
Collemeto, Noha, Santa Barbara
Italian comune.mayor
Fabio Vergine
Italian comune.area_total_km2
82.65
Italian comune.population_total
26887
Italian comune.population_as_of
31 December 2017
Italian comune.population_demonym
Galatinesi
Italian comune.elevation_m
78
Italian comune.saint
St. Peter and St. Paul
Italian comune.day
29 and 30 June
Italian comune.postal_code
73013

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Wikidata facts

Official name
Galatina
Demonym
galatinesi
Population
25885
Area
82.65
Elevation
78
Image
Centro storico di Galatina.jpg
Dialing code
0836
Licence plate code
LE
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Commons category
Galatina
postal code
73013
native label
Galatina
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Encyclopedic overview

5 sections
Contents
  • Main sights
  • Transportation
  • Energy
  • Twin towns
  • Notes

Galatina (; ; ), known before the unification of Italy as San Pietro in Galatina, is a town and (municipality) in the Province of Lecce in Apulia, southern Italy. It is situated about south of the city of Lecce.

==Main sights== The late Romanesque church of ''Santa Caterina d'Alessandria'', built in 1390 by Raimondello del Balzo Orsini, count of Soleto, with a fine portal and rose window. The interior contains frescoes by Francesco d'Arezzo (1435). The apse contains the fine mausoleum of the son of the founder, a canopy supported by four columns, with his statue beneath. The Baroque church of San Pietro (also known as Mother Church), rebuilt from 1633 on a previous Greek-rite edifice. The Saint Paul Chapel. It houses a well which, according to tradition, was able to heal people bitten by poisonous tarantulas (those bitten are called tarantati or pizzicati in the local dialect). See also Tarantism. The Pupa, a fountain in local limestone

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Galatina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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