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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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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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- 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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- Galatina
- postal code
- 73013
- native label
- Galatina
- P8168
- Hans Scheele
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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.
==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
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