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Galatina
Sign in to saveGalatina (; ; ), 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.
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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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
- Official website
- www.comune.galatina.le.it
- 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
- P8168
- Hans Scheele
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Encyclopedic overview
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- 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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