San Fili

San Fili is a village in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy with a population of approximately 2,500 (2022).

Understand
The village of San Fili has been included in the guide "I borghi più belli del Mediterraneo" with other five Calabrian municipalities.

Geography
The historic centre of San Fili is located on the highest hill, and also has a hamlet and two districts of some importance: the Bucita hamlet and the Frassino and Cozzi districts.

History
The village once called Terra Sancti Felicis, presumably in honor of San Felice, a saint to whom the population was devoted in the parish church of that time. The name San Fili came later and in the 15th century the town became part of the county of Rende belonging to the Adorno doges of Genoa from 1445 to 1529. From 1532 Rende (and therefore San Fili) was raised to a marquisate and given to Ferrente de Alarcone.

San Fili has a fraction and two districts of some importance: the Bucita fraction and the Frassino and Cozzi districts. They made famous San Fili Vincenzo Miceli professor of Constitutional Law and then of Philosophy of Law at the Universities of Pisa, Palermo, and Perugia, and again Alfonso Miceli, his brother (1855-1940) president of the Court of Appeal of Naples, both natives of San Fili and belonging to the homonymous baronial family of the Miceli di Serradileo. More recently by Baron Marcello Miceli (1918-1992) Gentleman of His Holiness Paul VI, John Paul I, and John Paul II, and Knight of Grace and Devotion of the Sovereign Order of Malta.

Several Sanfilesi emigrated to Canada and the United States of America, and a considerable number also to South America (Argentina and Brazil above all), as well as many emigrated to European countries such as Germany and Switzerland. Today the descendants of Sanfilesi emigrants are a large number; an example is the Canadian community which appears to have reached 6,000 units.

Traditions
The village of San Fili is known as "village of Magare", creatures identified in most of Southern Italy as witches. In reality they are not sorcerers: in San Fili the "magare" were those women who today we would call naturopaths or herbalists. With the difference that in addition to the knowledge of herbs and natural remedies, they also have popular wisdom, a strong religiosity and a suggestive charm.

Get in
The main street of the village is via XX Settembre.

By car
The state road 107 Silana Crotonese or E846 connects the territory of San Fili in less than 20 km: in Cosenza, at the University of Calabria (Unical), at the A2 (Salerno-Reggio Calabria) or E45 exit Rende - Cosenza north, and in Paola.

By train
The closest stations are Paola and Cosentino.

By bus

 * Eurobus

By public transport

 * Autolinee Ferrovie della Calabria
 * Autoservizi Preite

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