Patù

Patù
— *Comune* —
Comune di Patù

Patù Location of Patù in Italy
Coordinates:
Country	Italy
Region	Puglia
Province	Lecce (LE)
Frazioni	Felloniche, Marina di San Gregorio
Area
• Total	8 km² (3.1 sq mi)
Elevation	124 m (407 ft)
Population (31 December 2010)^[1]
• Total	1,740
• Density	217.5/km² (563.3/sq mi)
Demonym	Patuensi
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	73053
Dialing code	0833
Patron saint	St. Michael Archangel
Saint day	24 June
Website	Official website

Patù is a town and comune in the province of Lecce in the Puglia region, 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.