Centopietre, Archaeological monument in Patù, Italy.

Centopietre is a rectangular funerary monument in Patù, measuring 7.20 m long, 5.50 m wide and 2.60 m high, built from 100 limestone blocks taken from the Messapian city of Vereto. It has a gabled roof and inside are superimposed layers of 14th-century sacred frescoes showing thirteen frontal, standing saints of Eastern origin in a Basilian-inspired scheme.

Centopietre was built in the 9th century as the burial mausoleum of General Geminiano, a peace envoy killed by the Saracens just before the final battle of Campo Re on 24 June 877, at the foot of the Vereto hill. Its hundred limestone blocks were taken from the nearby Messapian city of Vereto. Long forgotten, it drew scholarly attention in 1872 and was declared a national monument of the second class in 1873.

The interior frescoes, dating to the 14th century, show thirteen saints of Eastern origin standing frontally, arranged according to a Basilian-inspired scheme. They record the monument's conversion into a church in the medieval period. The paintings are now almost entirely erased by humidity.

Centopietre stands in the open in Patù, at the foot of the Vereto hill, and is reached on foot; there is no interior lighting, so the faded frescoes are best examined in daylight. The interior is a single small room, 7.20 m by 5.50 m and 2.60 m high, with a gabled roof, so a visit takes only a few minutes.

The name Centopietre comes from the fact that the structure was originally made of exactly one hundred stones fitted together; today 99 remain. The monument stayed forgotten for centuries until scholars took an interest in it in 1872, and in 1873 the government declared it a national monument of the second class.