Galatina

• Name — Galatina • Official Name — Comune di Galatina • Native Name — San Pietru • Region — Apulia • Province — Lecce (LE) • Frazioni — Collemeto, Noha, Santa Barbara • Mayor — Fabio Vergine • Area Total Km2 — 82.65 • Population Total — 26887 • Population As Of — 31 December 2017 • Population Demonym — Galatinesi • Elevation M — 78 • Istat — 075029 • Saint — St. Peter and St. Paul • Day — 29 and 30 June • Postal Code — 73013 • Area Code — 0836

• 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 • Illustration — Christ and 12 apostles, on the lintel of the portal of Santa Caterina d'Alessandria • Illustration — Frescoes depicting New testament scenes, inside Santa Caterina d'Alessandria • Illustration — Frescoes depicting the Seven Sacraments, on the ceiling of Santa Caterina d'Alessandria • Illustration — Portal of Galatina - Santi Pietro e Paolo • Illustration — Sculpture of an angel on the façade of Palazzo Bardoscia Lubelli Spoti (18th c.)

Galatina has a station on the Ferrovie Sud-Est line to Lecce. Road connections include the SS16 Adriatica state highway, the SS101 state road, also to Lecce, and the SS 613 Brindisi-Lecce highway.

Near Galatina is the static inverter plant of HVDC Italy-Greece.

• Bosnia-Herzegovina Novi Grad, Bosnia-Herzegovina, since 1997 • Greece Sapes, Greece, since 1999