Patron saint festival In 51 days
Saint Nicholas, patron of the land of the Gaudio Silk Mill
📅 Every year, on 6 December
Mendicino celebrates Saint Nicholas on 6 December.
The name of the village may be the oldest recorded in the district: Hecataeus of Miletus, listing the cities of the Oenotrians in the sixth century before Christ, mentions a Moinekine, and from that, altered over the centuries, Mendicino is said to come. The Greek has stayed in the rivers that close the territory too: the Caronte, the Arconte, the Mericano.
The mountains around have fed one of the most stubborn legends in Calabria: that the treasure of Alaric is here, and more than one search has been made on the heights of Mendicino. What is certain is that the pink stone that gives the old town its colour comes from here, like the stone of the little church of San Sebastiano, where an inscription bears the date 1579. Above everything stands Monte Cocuzzo, and from the mountain, on clear days, the eye reaches as far as Sicily.
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Places to see within 25 km
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chiesa di San Liberale 📍 Belluno · 18 km A very old little church on the hill of Pedeserva, in Belluno, with a stone-slab roof and a crypt. chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio 📍 Belluno · 19 km A thirteenth-century church in Belluno divided in two by a wall, between the faithful and the enclosed nuns. chiesa di Sant'Aronne 📍 Belluno · 19 km The parish church of Cusighe, in Belluno, with an altarpiece by Girolamo Denti and a Last Supper by Paris Bordon. chiesa di San Pietro Apostolo 📍 Belluno · 19 km The nineteenth-century parish church of Sargnano, in Belluno, built over almost thirty years, with a Besarel tabernacle. chiesa di Santo Stefano 📍 Belluno · 20 km The Servites' Gothic church in Belluno, in white and red stone, with Brustolon's angels and a 24-hour clock. chiesa di San Rocco 📍 Belluno · 20 km Belluno's votive church, born of the plague of 1530, in Castellavazzo stone, with a canvas by Gaspare Diziani.