The town is named after a family. The Pace came here to clear land, and to tell themselves apart from the other Pace they took to calling themselves the Filiani, from the Latin filius: they lived together like sons of a single father, holding everything in common. Their farmstead became the contrada delli Filiani, then Filiani, then Filiano.
What drew them was the policy of Andrea Doria, who bought the fief of Lagopesole in 1531, had a land of solid woodland cleared and offered easy rents to whoever came to work it. In 1858 a geographical dictionary records a village of 400 people; the comune itself arrived in 1951, when thirty hamlets north of Avigliano won their autonomy. There are 3,089 residents.
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📅 Every year, on 7 October (religious) and the second Sunday of August (civil)
Filiano celebrates Our Lady of the Rosary twice: the religious feast on 7 October, the civil one on the second Sunday of August; the mother church dedicated to her opened in 1960.
Tuppo dei sassi Red ochre paintings under a sandstone overhang, entry by booking only 
chiesa di San Giuseppe The faithful each brought a stone to Mass; the church was finished in 1885 
Palazzo Corbo Ferdinand II of Bourbon stayed here in 1846; today it holds the town's conference hall. 
riserva antropologica "Agromonte Spacciaboschi" 71 hectares of state forest protected since 1972 for a medieval site; entry by permit only. 
Riserva naturale I Pisconi The rock paintings of Riparo Ranaldi, found in 1965 under a sandstone overhang. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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