Galatina ( el, label=
Griko,
Ας Î ÎÏ„Ïο, As Pètro; scn, label=
Salentino
Salentino () is a dialect of the Extreme Southern Italian ( in Italian) spoken in the Salento peninsula, which is the southern part of the region of Apulia at the southern "heel" of the Italian peninsula.
Overview
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, San Pietru), known before the unification of Italy as San Pietro in Galatina, is a town and ''
comune'' in the
Province of Lecce in
Apulia
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, southern
Italy. It is situated about south of the city of
Lecce
Lecce ( ); el, label=Griko, Luppìu, script=Latn; la, Lupiae; grc, Λουπίαι, translit=LoupÃai), group=pron is a historic city of 95,766 inhabitants (2015) in southern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Lecce, the province ...
.
Main sights
*The
late Romanesque church of ''Santa Caterina d'Alessandria'', built in 1390 by
Raimondello del Balzo Orsini
Raimondo Orsini del Balzo (also known as ''Raimondello''; 1350–55 – 17 January 1406) was a nobleman from the Kingdom of Naples. He was Count of Soleto (1382), Prince of Taranto (1399–1406), Duke of Bari, Grand Constable of the Kingdom of Na ...
,
count of
Soleto, with a fine portal and rose window. The interior contains frescoes by
Francesco d'Arezzo
Francesco, the Italian (and original) version of the personal name "Francis", is the most common given name among males in Italy. Notable persons with that name include:
People with the given name Francesco
* Francesco I (disambiguation), sever ...
(1435). The
apse contains the fine
mausoleum
A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A mausoleum without the person's remains is called a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be consid ...
of the son of the founder, a canopy supported by four columns, with his statue beneath it.
*The Baroque church of San Pietro (also known as Mother Church), rebuilt from 1633 on a previous Greek-rite edifice.
*The ''Pupa'', a fountain in local
limestone
In the neighbourhood is the small church of San Paolo. 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).
Transportation
Galatina has a station on the
Ferrovie Sud-Est line to
Lecce
Lecce ( ); el, label=Griko, Luppìu, script=Latn; la, Lupiae; grc, Λουπίαι, translit=LoupÃai), group=pron is a historic city of 95,766 inhabitants (2015) in southern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Lecce, the province ...
. Road connections include the SS16 Adriatica state highway, the SS101 state road, also to Lecce, and the SS 613 Brindisi-Lecce highway.
Energy
Near Galatina is the static inverter plant of
HVDC Italy-Greece
A high-voltage direct current (HVDC) electric power transmission system (also called a power superhighway or an electrical superhighway) uses direct current (DC) for electric power transmission, in contrast with the more common alternating curren ...
.
Twin towns
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Novi Grad, Bosnia-Herzegovina, since 1997
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Sapes, Greece, since 1999
Notes
Cities and towns in Apulia
Localities of Salento
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