San Chirico Raparo.
Some sources state that this village was built on
the ruins of the old ‘Polisantria’. Its
name seems to come from ‘San Quirico from Konya’,
martyr during the persecutions by the Emperor Diocletianus,
worshipped by some eastern monks. In the middle of
the XVIII century San Chirico was a well developed
centre of the textile industry. Inside the village
there was a weaving factory for cotton and broom.
In this village there are several important remarkable
constructions. Characteristic of this territory is
the spring of the Trigello Stream, which disappears
in autumn to appear again in spring time, because
it flows over karstic land.
At the foot of the Raparo Mountain there are two
other springs characterised by sulphurous waters,
the Santa Quaranta and the Cortignano, very good for
healing skin diseases and rheumatism.
