Patù

Patù (Salentino: Pàtu) is a town and comune in the province of Lecce in the Apulia region of 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.