Patron saint festival In 23 days
Feast of Saint Theodore the Martyr
📅 Every year, on 9 November
On 9 November Bagaladi celebrates its patron Saint Theodore the Martyr, to whom the town's parish church is dedicated.
Bagaladi means «the land of the Bagalà family»: the surname comes from the Arabic Bahāʾ Allāh, the beauty that comes from God, and the ending is the Greek -ades, which hereabouts said whose a piece of land was. In the Greek of Calabria the village is Vagalàdes. The popular reading, «valley of oil», has no foundation, though the valley is indeed full of olive trees — and the Arab geographer al-Idrisi called this river the honey stream.
In the church of the Santissima Annunziata there are a Byzantine cross of the tenth century and a marble Annunciation by Antonello Gagini. The village itself grew out of the Basilian monasteries of the Tuccio valley, and along the water the mills and the oil presses are still there.
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chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie 📍 Norcia · 8.6 km Hilltop church of Campi Vecchio, destroyed in the 26 October 2016 earthquake; today a place of memory. chiesa di San Salvatore 📍 Norcia · 8.7 km Historic Romanesque church near Norcia built over a Roman temple, largely destroyed in the 2016 earthquakes. chiesa di Sant'Andrea 📍 Norcia · 8.7 km Campi's fourteenth-century parish church, badly hit in 2016; its medieval treasures now rest in Spoleto. chiesa della Madonna Bianca 📍 Norcia · 11 km A 14th-century church near Norcia, famous for its marble relief of the Madonna Bianca by Francesco di Simone Ferrucci. Sito archeologico di Forca d'Ancarano 📍 Norcia · 13 km An ancient Italic mountain sanctuary near Norcia, used from the 6th century BC as a sacred crossroads. basilica di San Benedetto 📍 Norcia · 15 km Built over the birthplace of Saints Benedict and Scholastica, this historic Norcia basilica reopened in October 2025.