Patron saint festival In 74 days
Feast of Saint John the Evangelist
📅 Every year, on 27 December
On 27 December Mercallo celebrates its patron Saint John the Evangelist, to whom the town's church is dedicated.
The name of Mercallo probably comes from Old German mark halle, «place of the border»: the village stood between the old pievi of Angera and Brebbia, and the border, ever since, has gone on shifting around it. In the Napoleonic period, in 1809, Mercallo was annexed to Comabbio; and from 1801 to 1927 it was in the province of Como, before passing to that of Varese.
Today it looks out on the western shore of the lake of Comabbio — which is the village that had taken it in. In 1751 it had 297 inhabitants; a century later, in 1853, there were 553. The municipal coat of arms is recent: the council approved it in 1986 and the decree came in 1988.
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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.