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Feast of San Rocco
📅 Every year, on 19 August
On 19 August Castroregio, a municipality of 345 inhabitants in the province of Cosenza, celebrates San Rocco, patron of the village.
The name says «castle of the king»: a document of 1015 mentions a monastery here and a Kastron, and in 1239 Frederick II ordered its restoration — from then on that castle was called Regium. Then the plague of 1348 emptied half of Calabria, and into the deserted hamlets came, after the fall of Scutari in 1479, the Albanians in flight: they found the castle in ruins and used its stones for their own houses.
Around 1710 nine families, thirty-three people, left in order not to pay taxes and founded a small hamlet further down the valley: for almost a century it took in other fugitives, then its inhabitants became citizens of the neighbouring comune and their Arbëreshë identity was lost. What remains of it is the ruin of a little church and its baptismal font. Up here, instead, the Albanian language and the Greek-Byzantine rite are still alive.
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Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.