The name, they say, comes from zimba, the dialect word for a pigsty, though not all scholars accept it. The village stands at seven hundred and sixty-six metres, in the middle of the Serre, exactly halfway between the Tyrrhenian and the Ionian, in the upper valley of the Ancinale, among woods of chestnut, beech and silver fir.
It belonged first to the dukes of Nocera, then was sold to the monastery of Santo Stefano del Bosco, the charterhouse of Serra San Bruno. The earthquake of 1783 brought it down and it was rebuilt from scratch: the parish church of the Transfiguration has had its present shape ever since. In August the vuti of Saint Roch are carried in procession; in recent decades the population has halved, and there is a colony of Simbario people in Toronto.
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