The Feast of the patron San Barbato is celebrated on February 19 with a solemn mass and religious celebrations involving all the faithful of Casalattico in celebrating their beloved patron. There are stalls of handicrafts and stands of typical products of the village Ciociaro throughout the holiday period.
Saltarello is life. It is a dance of life, of liberation, of challenge. Saltarello contains a world of messages, proposals, waste, gambling, outburst, union and jealousy. Saltarello is an ancient dance. They danced almost always outdoors, on the farmyards, after intense working days in the harvest, in the wheat harvest Read more…
The Casalattico Irish Fest is the most exciting international festival in the Comino Valley and a place where the two countries and two musical styles meet. On the evening of August 14th, Italian and Irish music meld together and people enjoy the mixing of rhythms and traditions. For that occasion, Read more…
The Astronomical Observatory of Casalattico, dedicated to Emiliano Nardone, is positioned high above the Gorges of Melfa, away from the turmoil of artificial light. It is used to satisfy scientific curiosity of those who want to learn about the world beyond the earth and it is open both day and Read more…
‘Fields of the People’ a walk in the mountains around Casalattico, coming on top of Silara, you open your eyes to an unusual landscape where all the mountain slopes have been terraced with dry stone walls. Along the trails you can then find the wells and the ‘pagliari’, ancient circular Read more…
The Casalattico countryside and its surroundings are characterized by the presence of strange circular structures in local stone. These are hand-dug wells that were used to drain rainwater and then use it for grazing and agriculture. The well was built with ‘dry’ stones (without cement) and was in need of Read more…
The mill was the main economic resource of the area and provided work for generations to many families until it closed in the 1950s. Recently, in the course of recoverings its past identity, the mill has been transformed in Museum of the Agricultural Mill of San Nazario with displays of Read more…
The ‘Written Stone’, it is a rock placed along the route of an ancient Roman road, which connected Atina with Casalattico, which tells the story of the road. In the first century AD, a man named Gaius Pomponio Tigrano freedman would have paid 450,000 sesterzi out of his pocket to Read more…
The remains of the Montattico tower are located on a 776 meter hill on a spur of Mount Cairo of Casalattico and were probably part of one of the many villas that Pompey Atticus had in this area. The strategic location and good view over the Val di Comino suggests Read more…
Around 1032 the small Benedictine monastery along the Melfa River was authorized to build a mill that was in operation until the 1950s, when the great emigration emptied the country. Of the monastery today, remains the Church and Mill of San Nazario, now private, and the mill transformed into a Read more…
