San Demetrio Corone
Also known as Shën Mitri
Italian comune
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Key facts
- Country
- Italy
- Region
- Calabria
- Province
- Cosenza (CS)
- Frazioni
- Macchia Albanese, Guriza, Sofferetti, Sant'Agata, San Nicola, Piedigallo
- Mayor
- Salvatore Lamirata
- Total
- 61.87 km (23.89 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 521 m (1,709 ft)
- Density
- 59.69/km (154.6/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Sandemetresi ( Arbëresh ë: Shënmitrotë)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Dialing code
- 0984
- Patron saint
Article
San Demetrio Corone (Arbëreshë: Shën Mitri) is a town and municipality in the Calabria region of Italy, at an altitude of 521 meters and with 3,387 inhabitants. The town is among the most important cultural centers of the Albanian communities in Italy and preserves the Albanian language, the Byzantine rites, customs, culture and ethnic identity of its origin. It is home to the Collegio of Sant'Adriano, a boarding school which produced many patriots and theorists/revolutionaries in the Italian Independence wars and is an important religious and cultural organism for the conservation of the oriental rite and of the Albanian traditions. It is part of the district of the Italo-Albanian Church of the Eparchy of Lungro.
In the Macchia Albanese hamlet, located at 418 meters above sea level, Girolamo De Rada was born, supreme vate arbëresh, father of modern Albanian literature.