Calcata Map- Calcata Vecchia, Italy

Made famous by David Farley as the Italian town hiding "the Santissimo Prepuzio, the most holy foreskin, the prepuce of Jesus Christ (and the only piece of flesh Christ could have conceivably left on earth)." David's book, An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church's Strangest Relic in Italy's Oddest Town, has just been released to quite a bit of critical aclaim.

Calcata Vecchia Map

The marker on the map shows the interesting geography around old Calcata or Calcata Vecchia (the outskirts of the new town Calcata are coming into view on the upper right of the map). It's been an artist's village for a long while, so if you like to shop for handmade art, you're in. But what else is there to do in Calcata? According to David Farley in Eight Questions for David Farley, it's not a bad place for walkers:

"I would start off with a walk down in the valley below which is etched with footpaths and littered with tombs from the Faliscans, a pre-Christian people who inhabited the area but were wiped out by the Romans."

Calcata Travel Tips

I learned of Calcata from a group of expats who live in the Lazio region of Italy. They, and lots of Romans, recommend the weekend trip north to Calcata (weekends are more lively than weekdays).

There isn't a hotel in Calcata, but I Sensi Della Terra rents rooms and houses in Calcata.

More tips for travelers can be found in Farley's own article in Transitions Abroad: Life in an Italian Hippie Hill Town.

Oh, and don't come looking for the holy foreskin, it went missing in 1983.

Calcatta Vecchia is a very interesting town in the Lazio region of Italy, just north of Rome. Calcatta is known for its renegade artists and Italy's strangest relic, the holy foreskin.

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