Arbëresh Villages in Sicily
Length: 6:14
Description: The two Arbëresh villages of Hora e Arbëreshëvet and Shëndahstina Xhela (piana degli albanesi and santa cristina gela), located thirty miles from Palermo, Sicily. These villages have spoken the same Tosk Albanian dialect "Arbërishte" since the 16th Century when they began to arrive from Himarë in southern Albania.
Hora keeps the Byzantine Orthodox Rite in the Albanian language, and Shëndahstina changed to the Latin Catholic Rite in 1900.
Author: ceniboy
Source: YouTube
