Patron saint festival In 299 days
Feast of Saint Lawrence
📅 Every year, on 10 August
On 10 August Mergo, a municipality of 1,083 inhabitants in the province of Ancona, celebrates its patron Saint Lawrence (san Lorenzo).
From 1360 and for four centuries, at the feast of San Quirico the men of Mergo had to carry the palio to Serra San Quirico, as a sign of submission. A legend of the sixteenth century tells that the people of Mergo killed their own parish priest: it was said to be over a silver chalice that had vanished from the church of San Lorenzo, but the truth was never known, and as a punishment the parish was taken away and given to Serra.
Independence came only in 1827, when Pope Leo XII detached the castle from Serra and made it a comune; it was lost again in 1928, joined to Rosora, and regained on the first of February 1946. The name is said to come from a root meaning marsh, and from the smergo, the duck that lived there: but on the coat of arms, in place of the smergo, there is a blackbird.
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Museo nazionale etrusco Rocca Albornoz 📍 Viterbo · 11 km Etruscan museum in Viterbo's Rocca Albornoz, with Acquarossa terracottas, Ferento's Muses and the Biga Tomb. Lago di Alviano 📍 Alviano · 21 km The Tiber reservoir at Alviano, turned into an oasis by hydraulic accident. duomo di Amelia 📍 Amelia · 21 km The twelve-sided bell tower made of Roman stones, atop the hill of Amelia.