Patron saint festival In 53 days
Feast of Saint Nicholas of Bari
📅 Every year, on 6 December
On 6 December Candidoni celebrates its patron Saint Nicholas of Bari; the town is also home to a religious institute of women.
The name comes from the ancient Greek Anthedòn, and in Calabrian the village is Candiduni. Of monuments its history has left only one, the castle of Borrello; for the rest there are fields — wine, oil and citrus — on the border between the Reggio area and the Vibonese.
The coat of arms, granted in 1982, is more eloquent than any chronicle: on a silver ground a black eagle with lowered wings, crowned in gold in the antique fashion, gripping four red thunderbolts in its talons. In a village of a few hundred people there is also a women's religious institute, the Daughters of Saint Veronica Missionaries of the Holy Face, and a single parish for the whole comune, dedicated to Saint Nicholas.
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Museo storico militare Brigata Catanzaro 📍 Catanzaro · 7.8 km Catanzaro museum of the Catanzaro Brigade: arms, uniforms and relics from Napoleon to the Second World War. Chiesa di Sant'Omobono 📍 Catanzaro · 9.0 km Catanzaro church with Norman-Byzantine features, described as the oldest place of worship in the city. Basilica dell'Immacolata Concezione 📍 Catanzaro · 9.3 km Catanzaro basilica built in 1254, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, patron of the city. Chiesa del Santissimo Rosario 📍 Catanzaro · 9.5 km Fifteenth-century church in Catanzaro, consecrated in 1499, with a Baroque mother-of-pearl altar. Villa Margherita 📍 Catanzaro · 9.7 km Catanzaro's oldest public garden, of 1881, with an archaeological museum, a library and a view over the gulf. Castello normanno-svevo di Nicastro 📍 Lamezia Terme · 16 km Medieval castle on the hill of San Teodoro in Nicastro, with cylindrical towers and a pentagonal keep.