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Cathedral of Santa Caterina d'Alessandria

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Built under the domain of Raimondello Orsini and finished in 1391, the Cathdral is the most important and representative monument of Galatina. Inside it preserves a frescoes cycle that narrates moments from old and new Testament. Philippe Daverio considers the Cathedral Cateriniana as: "The first western place where internationalism reaches its own language, where cultures that are from Flanders, from France, generally from the countries of northern Europe, you represent in pictorial cycles. It is a place where transport of the gentiles comes through the transport of myths and the transport of myths passes through the images".

Santa Caterina d'Alessandria is "a church with unexpected linguistic crossings" for which it is not true to say that "Galatina could be a place of thought for the Europe of tomorrow, on the assumption that the intercultural dialog and religious is the past and it is represented in the infinite narration of the frescoed walls, abstract of a century and a half of awarenesses (by Giotto, at the beginning of the fourteenth century until the end of the fifteenth century when already is in progress the Renaissance)".

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  • Piazzetta Orsini, 16, Galatina (Lecce)
  • 0836 569984
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Events

from
monday
12
june, 2023
to tuesday 13 june 2023

Feast of Sant'Antonio of Padova

from
wednesday
28
june, 2023
to friday 30 june 2023

Patronal feast of SS. Peter and Paul

from
sunday
2
july, 2023
to sunday 9 july 2023

City of Galatina Band Festival

from
sunday
16
july, 2023
to sunday 23 july 2023

Watermelon Fair in Collemeto

thursday
10
august, 2023

Calici di Stelle

from
sunday
13
august, 2023
to sunday 20 august 2023

Pepper and eggplant Fair in Collemento

from
sunday
12
november, 2023
to sunday 19 november 2023

Ornithological exhibition

from
sunday
19
november, 2023
to sunday 26 november 2023

St. Catherine's Fair

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