In various sources in 1600 mentions the monastery of San Nicola (employee the monastery of Lungro) in our territory.
This is a very important perchè, insieme ad altri indizi e prove, dimostra la presenza albanese nella storia della nostra comunità.
I ruderi (come documentato la prima volta nel libro La misteriosa città di Kyniskos di M. Sirimarco e P. Calonico) sono ancora oggi ben visibili in località Fravitta.
Eccoli in queste due foto.
Pubblico il testo di un mio commento ad un articolo di Francesco Marchianò sul sito www.goladelrosa.eu:
Caro Raffaele, permettimi di esprimere i miei complimenti all’autore per questo articolo molto interessante e per il suo documentato lavoro di ricerca.
The Albanian presence in the history sansostese can be found in numerous documentary and literary sources that the author mentions on time, place names in some data (the square of the Albanians, for example). A track also seems to me very significant presence in the locality Fravitta a place of worship dedicated to St. Nicholas ...
What should be specified (the "flag does not fall into the error) is that, contrary to what was claimed by local historians (such as Don Domenico Cerbello in his, however, fundamental monograph), San Sosti is of Albanian origin, as the families who settled there were already an organized community with its institutions and its religiosity. Top Recent archaeological investigations clearly demonstrate as evidence of human presence of some relief from prehistory to modern times (a dense first report on the latest excavations can be viewed on the web page http://www.fastionline.org/docs/ FOLDER-it-2008-130.pdf). The history of San
Sosti, the Casalini of Pettoruto, despite a number of important contributions (among whom I must mention a book in 1995 titled "The mysterious city of Kyniskos" especially for giving new impetus to historical studies and archaeological), remains largely to be written.
