Patron saint festival In 244 days
Saint Vitus and his column
📅 Every year, on 15 June
Castri di Lecce celebrates Saint Vitus on 15 June, in the church dedicated to him.
From 1262 to 1891 the Castri were two: Castrifrancone and Castriguarino, born from the splitting of a single village. From 1709 they even had the same lord, the Vernazza of Genoa, and still remained two separate places; the union came with a council resolution, on 12 November 1891.
Of that division two mother churches remain, a few streets apart: Santa Maria della Visitazione, which belonged to Castriguarino, and San Vito, which belonged to Castrifrancone and was rebuilt in the eighteenth century looking to Borromini. The name comes from castrum, the fortress, and in Griko the village is ta Kastrìa; people, though, call it Castrì, and Castrì is what the road signs say.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Castri di Lecce, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Donato 📍 Massimino · 9.3 km The parish church of San Donato in the hamlet of San Vincenzo, baroque, built between 1818 and 1820. monastero di Santo Stefano 📍 Millesimo · 14 km Baroque church and fifteenth-century cloister, Cistercian until 1802, now inside a private castle. castello di Millesimo 📍 Millesimo · 15 km Dismantled in 1553 so the French could not take it, the thirteenth-century keep is open again. Castello di Cairo Montenotte 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km The ruins of the Del Carretto castle above Cairo Montenotte, in the upper Bormida valley. Ferrania Film Museum 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km Six themed rooms in Palazzo Scarampi for the plant that made Ferrania a name in world cinema. castello di Dego 📍 Dego · 24 km Ruins at Cua, above the Val Bormida, and a Napoleonic path that climbs up to them.