Patron saint festival In 50 days
Feast of Saint Barbara
📅 Every year, on 4 December
On 4 December Amaroni celebrates its patron Saint Barbara, to whom the town's church is dedicated.
Nobody invented the arms of Amaroni: they were taken from the State Archive of Naples, and they conform to the old seal that appears on volume 6320, the one holding the rivele — the declarations — which the people of Amaroni handed in in 1755 for the drawing up of the catasto onciario, the tax register of the kingdom. Which is to say that the emblem the comune presents itself with today comes from the papers in which its inhabitants, two and a half centuries ago, declared to the king what they owned. The decree that granted it is of 1978.
The village stands at three hundred and seventy-eight metres, on a hill at the foot of Monte Carbonara, in the Preserre, and looks over the wide valley of the Ghetterello torrent; a second torrent, the Ferrera, crosses the territory of the comune. There is a single hamlet, called San Luca. In Calabrian the place is said Lamàruni, with the article stuck on to the front of the name. And the comune is twinned with Risch, in Switzerland.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Amaroni, but an easy day trip away.
certosa di Parma 📍 Parma · 8.3 km The charterhouse of Stendhal's title, now a police school and rarely open. Parma Baptistery 📍 Parma · 11 km Benedetto Antelami’s pink marble masterpiece, a European landmark bridging Romanesque and Gothic design in Parma. arco di San Lazzaro 📍 Parma · 9.8 km Arch of San Lazzaro in Parma, built in 1628 on via Emilia Est, restored in 2005. chiesa di San Sepolcro 📍 Parma · 11 km The Holy Sepulchre canons' church on the via Emilia, with a coffered ceiling. abbazia di San Giovanni Evangelista 📍 Parma · 11 km Correggio's second dome in Parma, and the Benedictine pharmacy with its jars in rows. teatro Farnese 📍 Parma · 12 km The Farnese wooden theatre in the Pilotta, inaugurated with a naval battle in the stalls.