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.
Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.