San Demetrio Corone sits on the hills between the Crati valley and the plain of Sibari, in the densest cluster of Arbëreshë villages in Calabria. Its heart is the Italo-Albanian College of Sant’Adriano: founded in 1732 at San Benedetto Ullano and moved here in 1794, for two centuries it trained Arbëreshë priests, scholars and patriots.
The College takes in the church of Sant’Adriano, built around 955 by Saint Nilus of Rossano. In the hamlet of Macchia Albanese, Girolamo De Rada was born in 1814, the poet who made Arbërisht a literary language.
Around it lie Santa Sofia d’Epiro, Vaccarizzo Albanese, San Cosmo Albanese and San Giorgio Albanese: a round of villages for one day.
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