title: Patù
text: # 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.
  