Gallicianò

The earliest documentary evidence of Gallicianò, dating back to 1060, is found in the "Brebion of the Byzantine metropolitan church of Reggio Calabria", edited by Byzantinist André Guillou.

[2] Τhe name derives from Gallicum, the medieval name of the modern city of Kilkis, from where the inhabitants came to recover in southern Italy after the disasters caused by Bulgarian raids.

Another theory is that the language survived in its ancient form but was greatly influenced by Byzantine medieval Greek.

Linguistics provides elements for a very ancient chronological dating, the presence of vocabulary, syntactic forms and particular verbs, in fact, reports the origin of the center in the 7th century BC.

[8] Gallicianò is known throughout the area for the high conservatism of Greek traditions, not only in the linguistic but also musical, gastronomic and ritual contexts.

- In the year 1999 the construction of the small Orthodox church of Panaghìa tis Elladas (Madonna di Grecia) was completed.

The name comes from the Byzantine church of the same name with its annexed monastery, whose ruins are located in a locality near Gallicianò, which is called "Grecia".

[9] - The tourist who visits Gallicianò along the main road encounters as the first monument, located just outside the town, the calvary.

There are broom covers, musulupare (traditional cheese molds), zampogne, lire and other rare objects that affect lovers of cultural anthropology.