The name is Greek and means, according to the most accepted etymology, «cabbage patch»: in Calabrian Greek the village is Lachanàdes. Tradition traces its foundation to the tenth century, when some inhabitants of Calanna moved inland to escape the Saracens; but somebody was here before, because in 1838, in the Favaro district, very ancient human bones were found.
The comune's coat of arms was not invented: it reproduces a seal that appears on the preparatory documents of the catasto onciario of 1742, the great property census of the Kingdom of Naples. The village, on the slopes of the Aspromonte, was badly damaged by the earthquakes of 1783 and 1908, and it still lives on what the mountain gives: oil, timber and cheese.
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