Buonvicino, Calabria, Italy
I'll try to tell you a brief history of this people, and I will propose some routes to do alone or accompanied by a tour guide.
Buonvicino was born in 1200 from the union of three villages: Saved, Tripidone and Trigiano. The first two of Greek descent houses were perched on the cliff walls of the Strait. South of Serra Pagano, in the territory of Belvedere Marittimo, stood, however, Trigiano (built by the Romans in the area today became the Buonvicino campaign). Among the three settlements at the beginning, there were continuous feuds. Men of Saved and Trepidone, always in search of food, besieging the fertile Trigiano territories. Only when the emperor Michael IV of Constantinople (1034 and 1041 AD) gave privilege in the lands and the settlers of Trigiano in San Ciriaco (abbot of the monastery of Santa Maria dei Padri rising in the territory of Buonvicino) the relations between the community changed. The monks, in fact, granted to all three houses to cultivate grazing in those fertile lands.
The monastery was named, later, eparchy (upper body site in the Basilian including all centers of the Tirreno) and became a reference point of the orthodox-greek rite. Attracted beneficial influence exerted by the monastery, over the years, many residents of the three villages moved near the monastery. The new village, according to historians, existed before 1327. Shown at the beginning as good neighbors or good neighbor became, for a linguistic distortion, Bomvicino, Bombicino or Bonivicini. The town probably owes its name to the Basilian monks who decided to seal the union between the three communities. E ', however, in 1869 that the country will definitely called Buonvicino.
Centro Storico medieval alleys and squares, a varied route that winds through the streets of the old town full of memories and ideas of the past that provide a stimulating setting where sounds, smells and colors blend, creating a magical atmosphere. Continuing through the old town you can admire the Church of San Ciriaco Abate sixteenth century. , Preserves the relics found in the ancient Monastery of "Santa Maria del Padre" around 1600 or so, now placed under the main altar, also the church is characterized by beautiful frescoes depicting the miracle San Ciriaco and healed the daughter of 'emperor Michael IV of Constantinople, ancient lithic are the two pillars of stone with holy water that were once part of the ancient monastery later included in the church in the sixteenth century. Caglianone the Baron's Palace, located near the San Ciriaco Piazza, the Palazzo Feudal of De Paola located near the Church of Our Lady of the Tower, from here continue to Belvedere lookout point where you can admire the beautiful countryside of Buonvicino.
Mountain Tourism - Naturalistic Sports: sports practicable in the resort for its complex range of land and geomorphological conditions, they are different: the land is full of large rocky bumps and numerous caves where many are rock shelters overlooking, very nice and above all to prove, it is climbing, hiking and many more.
Tourism Historical, archaeological and religious: may interest itineraries in localized archaeological sites in the past, some relics are preserved in the Museum of the City of Buonvicino titled "Museum of taste and traditions", but is recognized by the acronym MAGB or Museum Arts Taste Buonvicino.
The Museum was inaugurated on February 1, 2014, with the intent of conserving, exploiting, protecting and reviving historical memory of Buonvicino. It does so by guarding its walls all those artifacts over a period of almost twenty years, were collected by Prof. Francesco Casella, citizens of Buonvicino, in the municipality and that have been donated by citizens. This series of objects, refers to a space-time from the tenth century to the present day and is modeled on those who were the important moments of everyday life and progress of the small historic center: the tools used by the master craftsmen of the period to tools commonly used in domestic.
To see: Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Snows:
Characteristic for its location, situated in the homonymous locality ', on Mount Snow at a height of 720 meters above the sea, built in the eighteenth secolo.Prima that date, the Beata Vergine was worshiped in another church of which remain today only ruins it stood in the wooded area called Santa Maria, opposite the village and above the Tripidone cisso stone. From the summit of the mountain where stands the church offers one of the most 'beautiful views, so it can range from the Gulf of Policastro to Sicily and the restful green of the boschi of Appenninica chain. Serapotolo: Originally, this place was called Serapoto. The name comes from the Greek words skiara (dry) and potamos (river). The Greeks this term indicating the stretch of a river bed, dry, which reached the slopes of Mount Guide. It was never inhabited by Greeks who used it instead to bake lime, producing coal or distilling the resin from which to obtain pitch for ships. Serapodolo was inhabited only by a few families in early 1900 and then around the fifties. The area, although still nothing has surfaced to light, is considered of particular interest archeologico.Grotta San Ciriaco: Where the young saint went to pray, about 2.00 Km. From the town, near the jet stream, rich concretions. Cuisine and Wines: Ippolito CavalcantiDuca of Buonvicino was born in 1787. He moved and lived in Naples where he was called to court as a culinary consultant of the Bourbons. He was the author of a book of theoretical and practical kitchen with a thousand recipes. In the first editions ((PHONE NUMBER HIDDEN)) cookbook was written in pure dialect buonvicinese. The book is highly sought after by food lovers. In Naples was named Cavalcanti a hotel management school.
