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January 31, 2023
If you are looking for a place that offers an insight in the local culture, I can warmly recommend this BnB. San Demetrio Corone is a trilingual village where people speak Calabrian, Italian and often Arbëresh (Italo-Albanian)---a protected local language which has survived since the 16th century. Due to its location looking to the hilly landscape of the Ionian coast with a mild climate, the little town is famous for its olive oil and you are right here at the source where it is produced. The place is well kept and clean and during hot summer days you stay much better here than down at the coast. Medieval and antique monuments are close at Rossano and Sibari, San Demetrio has the Archimandritate Sant' Adriano. In its history it was a hermitage founded by St Neilos the Younger, it became a centre of Greek monasticism under the Normans, by the end of the 18th century it educated the Arbëresh priests to celebrate the Byzantine rite and it is one of the important classical colleges of Southern Italy. The Abbey church is famous for its medieval floor mosaics of a snake. Its shape inspired to a local cake spiced with origano (la riganata). You should ask for it at the place, where you take the breakfast. Who is more interested in nature finds nearby the Ionian and the Tyrrhenian sea and the National Parks Pollino and Sila Grande.