Patron saint festival In 303 days
Feast of San Rocco
📅 Every year, on 16 August
On 16 August Casignana, a municipality of 773 inhabitants in the metropolitan city of Reggio Calabria, celebrates its patron San Rocco.
In 1963, while digging for the main road, a Roman villa came to light: mosaics with sea figures, private baths, a nymphaeum. It is the largest Roman archaeological park of the Locride, and the village probably bears the name of the owner of that villa, one Casinius.
On 21 September 1922 the labourers of the Garibaldi cooperative were occupying the lands of the prince of Roccella. Carabinieri and fascists opened fire: the socialist councillor Pasquale Micchia and two peasants, Rosario Micò and Girolamo Panetta, were killed, and the mayor was wounded. These are the «facts of Casignana», from which Mario La Cava drew a novel. From 1927 to 1946 the comune did not exist: it was inside San Giovanni Samio, with three other villages.
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Cattedrale della Madonna del Ponte 📍 Lanciano · 5.7 km Lanciano's cathedral, built over the arches of a bridge, with the terracotta statue of the Madonna del Ponte. Chiesa di San Nicola di Bari 📍 Lanciano · 6.0 km The church of Lanciano's Sacca district, with a late Gothic bell tower and fourteenth-century True Cross frescoes. Punta Aderci Reserve 📍 Vasto · 20 km Established in 1998, this 285-hectare coastal reserve features sandy dunes and the towering Punta Penna lighthouse. Riserva naturale guidata Punta Aderci 📍 Vasto · 19 km The first reserve on the Abruzzo coast: 285 hectares of beaches, dunes and cliffs north of the port of Vasto. spiaggia di Punta Penna 📍 Vasto · 21 km The beach of sand and dunes below the Punta Penna promontory, inside the Punta Aderci reserve. Faro di Punta Penna 📍 Vasto · 22 km Vasto's 70-metre lighthouse, the second tallest in Italy after Genoa's Lanterna, with 307 steps to the top.