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Saint Nicholas, patron at the gates of Cilento
📅 Every year, on 6 December
Montesano sulla Marcellana celebrates Saint Nicholas on 6 December.
The name of the village is a diagnosis. Down below there was Marcellinum, in the middle of the marshes; between the unhealthy air and the plague, the inhabitants moved up the hill to eight hundred and fifty metres and called the new place Montesano, healthy mountain, for its good air and its springs. The rest of the name, sulla Marcellana, holds together the abandoned village and the road that ran through it.
It is the easternmost municipality of Campania, with more than four thousand hectares of woodland, among the largest in the Vallo di Diano. On the plateau of Magorno and Tardiano, if the winter rains enough, a lake forms and then disappears. In the main square of the town stands a neo-Gothic church as big as a cathedral, Sant'Anna, built between 1954 and 1959 at the wish of Filippo Gagliardi, a local man, who also left the village the prize that bears his name.
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Porta Mosa 📍 Cremona · 7.3 km The last gate left in Cremona, medieval in origin, with a sixteenth-century archway and the bastion of San Giorgio. Chiesa di San Sisto 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Renaissance church in Piacenza that kept Raphael's Sistine Madonna, with the tomb of Margaret of Austria. Palazzo Farnese 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Great Farnese palace of Piacenza designed by Vignola, home to the civic museums with the Etruscan liver and Botticelli. Chiesa delle Benedettine 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Deconsecrated Baroque church of 1681 built by the Farnese, with a double church for nuns and faithful and a great dome. Basilica di San Savino 📍 Piacenza · 21 km Romanesque basilica in Piacenza with a Baroque façade of 1721, a crypt with zodiac mosaics and Saint Sabinus's relics. Violin Museum 📍 Cremona · 24 km Housed in Cremona's Palazzo dell'Arte, this museum displays masterpieces by Stradivari and the city's greatest luthiers.