The earthquake of the eighth of September 1905 killed seventeen people and left Martirano unfit to live in. A Milanese relief committee, chaired by the mayor of Milan, proposed leaving the old village and making a new one: it was built at Piano delle Sorbe and inaugurated on the twenty-third of October 1907, with houses for two hundred and six families, a kindergarten and a small hospital paid for by the citizens of Busto Arsizio. Every house has a timber frame, iron ties, a garden, and stands well away from the next.
In 1929 the comune took the name Martirano Lombardo, to thank those who had rebuilt it. The old village did not like it: there was a revolt, and on the seventeenth of November of that year they burned the town hall. The quarrel ended in 1956, when Martirano Antico became a comune of its own again and took back its former name.
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📅 Every year, on 16 July
On 16 July Martirano Lombardo, a municipality of 1,167 inhabitants in the province of Catanzaro, celebrates its patroness the Madonna del Carmine (Our Lady of Mount Carmel).
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Outside Martirano Lombardo, but an easy day trip away.
