About Verbicaro

Along the foothills of the Northern Calabrian region, in the province Cosenza, gleams the little ancient town of Verbicaro. The "old town" inhabited still is about 400 years old. Here is a map showing where it is- almost to the 'ankle' of the boot. This is (one of?) the town's official website. Check out the pictures, it's all in Italian.

The first Googled website I keep getting is another fellow (name Fazzio) whose grandparents immigrated from Verbicaro to- guess where?- San Francisco and Sonoma in the early 1900's. This is just amazing... You have to visit this site.

Here's an article in the SF Gate (online San Francisco newspaper) about the glorious food of Calabria, through the eyes of one from Verbicaro. I noticed that they mention there are a lot of immigrants from this town here in the San Francisco Bay area... I wonder why?

The population there is steadily decreasing, so there's not a lot of cutting edge info available. Our people left over a hundred years ago looking for something else, something better...

Still, it's nice to see where they came from. The Ambrosio surname supposedly originated a little farther south. We'll look into that, too.