This village has changed its name three times and gone back to the first. It was called Samo because, tradition says, it was founded by refugees from the Greek island of Samos; after the Saracen raids the people withdrew to the heights and called the place Palecastro, which in Greek means old fortress.
Then came the earthquake of 1349, and the story goes that a noblewoman who had lost her husband and seven children cried out: to see my town destroyed breaks my heart. From that cry the village was called Crepacuore, then Precacore, until 1911, when after the rebuilding that followed the earthquake of 1908 it took back its old name. Of the old village the ruins remain, which here they call the castle of Pythagoras, and people climb up to them for the patron saint's feast.
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