Letino is a ''
comune
The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces (''province''). The can also ...
'' and small village in the
province of Caserta
The Province of Caserta ( it, Provincia di Caserta) is a province in the Campania region of southern Italy. Its capital is the city of Caserta, situated about by road north of Naples. The province has an area of , and had a total population of 9 ...
, in
Campania
Campania (, also , , , ) is an administrative Regions of Italy, region of Italy; most of it is in the south-western portion of the Italian peninsula (with the Tyrrhenian Sea to its west), but it also includes the small Phlegraean Islands and the i ...
, southern Italy.
It was one of the villages liberated by the Italian Libertarian Communist Insurrection of 1877 by
Errico Malatesta
Errico Malatesta (4 December 1853 – 22 July 1932) was an Italian anarchist propagandist and revolutionary socialist. He edited several radical newspapers and spent much of his life exiled and imprisoned, having been jailed and expelled from ...
,
Carlo Cafiero, Pietro Cesare Ceccarelli, the Russian
Stepniak and 30 other comrades. Another village in the same province,
Gallo Matese
Gallo Matese (Molisano: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Caserta in the Italy, Italian region Campania, located in a valley near the Matese Apennines chain and the boundary with Molise, about north of Naples and about north of ...
, was also involved.
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Letino photos
Cities and towns in Campania
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