Patron saint festival In 275 days
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, patron of Marano Marchesato
📅 Every year, on 16 July
Marano Marchesato celebrates Our Lady of Mount Carmel on 16 July, in the church dedicated to her.
Marano Marchesato has 3,474 inhabitants on the hills that look towards Cosenza, on the slope of the Catena Costiera. The town exists because of an earthquake: the one of 27 March 1638, which killed about ten thousand people in the Cosenza area. Those left without a house at Rende and at Castelfranco — today Castrolibero — moved into the Marano countryside, where many families already owned land. At first they were makeshift shelters; then proper houses were built, and out of that the town was born.
Once it had grown, the village became the object of a lawsuit: the Sersale princes of Castelfranco and the Alarcón y Mendoza marquises of Rende both claimed it. The case dragged on for years, until in 1684 the Consiglio Collaterale of Naples sent a royal surveyor out to measure and decide. The ruling cut the town in two: the south-western part to the Sersale, all the other districts to the Alarcón y Mendoza. Marano remained a hamlet of Rende until the end of feudalism, in 1806.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Marano Marchesato, but an easy day trip away.
Palazzo Ducale e Galleria Nazionale delle Marche 📍 Urbino · 9.3 km Federico's studiolo, 3.60 by 3.35 metres of inlay, and Piero della Francesca's Flagellation. Duomo di Urbino 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km The cathedral rebuilt by Valadier after the earthquakes, beside Federico da Montefeltro's Ducal Palace. Casa Santi 📍 Urbino · 9.0 km The house where Raphael was born in 1483, his father's workshop on the ground floor. Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista e Sant'Antonio abate 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km Urbino's oratory with the Salimbeni frescoes, a late gothic masterpiece. pieve di San Salvatore 📍 Rimini · 21 km Pieve di San Salvatore in Rimini, a Romanesque church on an ancient temple, with a plaque from 1318. Villa Caprile 📍 Pesaro · 23 km Seventeenth-century Baroque villa above Pesaro with an Italian garden and water games still working.