Until 1950 the village was called Casino, and the people wrote to the President of the Republic to have it changed, because by then the name was a joke: Einaudi agreed, and Castelsilano was born. The old name came from a hunting lodge built in 1650 by the prince of Cerenzia, who is said to have wanted it to mark a peace he had made between two quarrelling dukes, after a day's hunting and a good dinner.
A stone marks the place where the Bandiera brothers were captured; in the hills stand the remains of the oldest hydroelectric station in Calabria; and along the streets of the village there are seventy murals. In 1980 a Libyan MiG came down in these mountains, and the place filled with journalists and policemen; the film that told the story could not shoot here, and used a Sicilian village instead.
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📅 Every year, on 6 November
On 6 November Castelsilano celebrates its patron Saint Leonard of Noblac; the territory includes the Diapiro salino di Ogliastro, a distinctive geological formation.
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Outside Castelsilano, but an easy day trip away.
