Calabritto

Calabritto (Irpino: Calavrìttu) is an Italian town and a commune in the province of Avellino, Campania, Italy.

It occupies a hilly-mountainous area at the eastern tip of the Monti Picentini range, in the upper Sele valley.

Calabritto is a small town surrounded by the Picentini mountains in the west and crossed by Sele river in its eastern side, and a stream called the Zagarone.

It sits 460 meters above sea level on the slopes of Mount Altillo at the eastern end of the Picentini mountains.

It is surrounded by at least 14, and they are formed by various streams and rivers, including the Ponticchio, Vallone del Lupolo, Vado Carpino, Rivezzuolo, and Zagarone.

On the last Sunday in July, residents walk halfway up one of the mountains to the church of The Madonna della Neve ("Our Lady of the Snows"), the patron saint of Calabritto.

[17] Il Santuario Madonna della Neve (Shrine of Our Lady of the Snow) was destroyed during the 1980 earthquake and rebuilt.

The shrine sits at the edge of one of the mountain cliffs, and overlooks the Valle dell'Alto Sele from a distance of about 800 meters.

[24] According to the Italian counterpart to this page (https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabritto), the name "Calabritto" derives from the Latin "kalabrix," a thorny plant similar to the hawthorn, but the claim is not supported by an authoritative citation and seems dubious.