In 1820 the parish priest, don Antonio Lalli, bought part of the baronial palace from the Caracciolo for three hundred ducats: he wanted a bigger church there, and the people of Salcito began carrying up the stones one by one. On 14 February 1831 the priest suddenly died and the work stopped where it was: no outer walls, no roof.
People called it the church of the big windows. It stayed that way for nearly two hundred years: it was finished in 2008, and is now dedicated to San Rocco. The village, 695 residents, sits at 678 metres below Monte Lungo, inside the Morge park, and its name comes from the willows that grew among its springs.
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📅 Every year, on 14 June
Salcito celebrates Saint Basil the Great on 14 June, in the town's oldest and most important church, built in the 1500s on a 9th-century stronghold; every 10 August instead sees festivals in honour of Saint Lawrence, venerated in his own church.
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Outside Salcito, but an easy day trip away.
