The Albanians settled here around 1476, in a hamlet the older inhabitants had probably left after the earthquake of 1456; the name would come from the Greek platanià, the plane wood. At Plataci Arbëresh is still spoken, the rite is the Greek-Byzantine one, and the walls of the village are painted with scenes of the Albanian world.
The municipal archives burned a century ago, in a fire never explained, but the memory has stayed in the feasts: the wedding procession with the zampogna and the gala costumes, the festival of the little Arbëresh singers, the Madonna of Constantinople celebrated twice a year. On the last day of February the young people drag through the streets a string of tins tied together, making a din meant to drive the winter away.
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📅 Every year, on the last Sunday of September (first Sunday after the 23rd) and on 24 June
Plataci, an Arbëreshë municipality of 830 inhabitants in the province of Cosenza, celebrates its patron San Giovanni Battista (Saint John the Baptist) on 24 June and on the first Sunday after 23 September.
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Outside Plataci, but an easy day trip away.
