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Feast of Sant'Agata
📅 Every year, on the second Sunday of July
On the second Sunday of July Montiano, a municipality of 1,701 inhabitants in the province of Forlì-Cesena, celebrates its patroness Sant'Agata.
The name is said to come from Mons Jani, the mount of Janus, and the guess is six centuries old: so old that it has ended up on the coat of arms, where above the mountain stands the god's two-faced head, one face a woman's and one a man's. The village sits on a ridge between the valleys of the Pisciatello and the Rigossa, a few kilometres from Cesena, and it long belonged to the archbishops of Ravenna, until in 1355 Ludovico degli Ordelaffi of Forlì sacked it.
In 1566 Pope Pius V handed it to the Malatesta of the Sogliano branch, and it was Giacomo Malatesta, nephew of Sigismondo, who had the fortress built and the gateway into the village. That gate is now called the Arco degli Spada, after the Bolognese family that inherited the fief when the Malatesta branch died out; in 1797 everything returned to the Papal States, which held it until Italian unification. The parish church of Sant'Agata is of the fifteenth century and keeps an altarpiece painted in 1609.
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