It is the least populous comune in Calabria, and the smallest community of the Greek-speaking area, where the Greek of Calabria is still spoken: here the village is called Stàti. It has not always been like this: Staiti once counted around fifteen hundred inhabitants, many more than it has now. It was born towards the sixteenth century as a lookout post, and took its name from the family that bought and fortified it.
Outside the built-up area stands Santa Maria di Tridetti, a national monument: a church of the first Norman times, built however on a Greek plan because it served the rite of the Basilian monks, and in the presbytery the pointed arch and the round arch stand side by side — two ways of building, and two worlds, in the same wall. Of the monastery it belonged to nothing at all remains.
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📅 Every year, the novena from 16 to 24 July and the feast on 26 July
On 26 July Staiti, a municipality of 279 inhabitants in the province of Reggio Calabria, celebrates its patroness Saint Anne (sant'Anna), after the novena from 16 to 24 July.
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Outside Staiti, but an easy day trip away.
