Patron saint festival In 51 days
Saint Nicholas of Bari, patron of Lattarico
📅 Every year, on 6 December
Lattarico celebrates Saint Nicholas of Bari on 6 December, in the church dedicated to him.
Lattarico has 4,058 inhabitants on a hilly stretch of the inner side of the Coastal Range, looking out over the valley of the Crati. The name has three layers of language: the Greeks and the Romans called the place Ocriculum, from the Oscan-Umbrian ocris, which means mountain; then the name passed to a Roman landowner, Lattaricus, and from him to the village; in Byzantine Greek it was said Lachtarikòn. Three peoples, a single place.
Below the village stretches the valley of the Crati, a long narrow basin closed by the Sila to the east and by the Coastal Range to the west, where little wind arrives and thermal inversion is almost the rule: cold nights, scorching summers, and plenty of snow in the higher sectors. The railway station carries the name of Lattarico but is not at Lattarico: it is called Torano-Lattarico and stands in the neighbouring comune's territory. The municipal coat of arms came late, in 2008.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Lattarico, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa dei Santi Materno e Lucia (complesso) 📍 Lecco · 7.4 km The friary of Fra Cristoforo from The Betrothed, in Pescarenico, with a canvas by Cerano. chiesa di San Giuseppe al Caleotto 📍 Lecco · 7.9 km The tent-shaped church of the Caleotto in Lecco, in reinforced concrete with parabolic arches, from 1951. villa Manzoni 📍 Lecco · 8.0 km Alessandro Manzoni's family home in Lecco, now a Manzoni museum and art gallery. villa Belgiojoso 📍 Lecco · 8.6 km The eighteenth-century palazzo in Lecco's Castello district, home of the archaeology and natural history museums. Mura di Lecco 📍 Lecco · 8.7 km The triangular Visconti walls that enclosed Lecco, of which the Torre Viscontea and the Vallo survive. Basilica di San Nicolò 📍 Lecco · 8.9 km Lecco's principal church, with its 96-metre neo-Gothic bell tower built on a Spanish bastion.