Rivello was two towns for a long time. The upper part went with the church of the Latin rite, San Nicola di Bari, and its people were called bardàv'ti; the lower part with the Greek-rite parish of Santa Maria del Poggio, and those were the bardàsci. The street names still keep count: Fonte dei Lombardi on one side, Piazza dei Greci on the other.
In 1719 the town bought its freedom from the last feudal lord, Oronzo Pinelli: 55,000 ducats in instalments with interest and, on top of that, every year, four cantàri of salami, about three and a half quintals, 'of every quality, just as they are made in this land of Rivello'. There are 2,843 residents.
chiesa di Santa Maria del Poggio · chiesa di San Nicola di Bari · ex Convento di Sant'Antonio
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Next up: Saint Nicholas of Bari, patron of a town split between two rites, Sunday 6 December
Nearest airport: Lamezia Terme, 137 km away
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📅 Every year, on 6 December
Rivello celebrates Saint Nicholas of Bari on 6 December; its church holds a crypt second in size only to that of the basilica of Saint Nicholas in Bari, sacked by Napoleon's soldiers in 1806.
chiesa di Santa Maria del Poggio The apse hangs over a cliff, and the early medieval chapel of San Giovanni survives on the floor below. 
chiesa di San Nicola di Bari The cross-vaulted crypt where Napoleon's soldiers stabled their horses in August 1806. 
ex Convento di Sant'Antonio Under the arcades, Girolamo Todisco's Crucifixion of the Franciscan Martyrs of Japan. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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