Patron saint festival In 308 days
Feast of San Marone
📅 Every year, on 18 August
On 18 August Monteleone di Fermo, a municipality of 436 inhabitants in the province of Fermo, celebrates its patron San Marone.
Just outside the village the ground does something one does not expect in the Marche: it erupts mud. These are active mud volcanoes, and the mud comes out sometimes from plain cracks in the soil, sometimes building proper cones, which however do not last: the stronger explosions blow them apart themselves. A landscape in miniature that remakes and destroys itself continuously, a few hundred metres from the houses.
Of the castle that stood up here in the thirteenth century a hexagonal tower remains, and beside it stands a town hall out of all proportion to the village. In the church of the Misericordia, instead, there is a Last Judgement painted in 1548 by Orfeo Presutti, above the fresco of the high altar. In dialect the village is called Monteleó.
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Outside Monteleone di Fermo, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Marco 📍 Rovereto · 5.3 km The parish church of Marco di Rovereto, documented from 1180 and rebuilt after the First World War. Biotopo Lavini di Marco 📍 Rovereto · 6.8 km The landslide from Monte Zugna, with dinosaur trackways discovered in 1990 and two small lakes. chiesa di San Floriano 📍 Rovereto · 8.5 km The old mother church of Lizzana, parent of Rovereto's churches, with two sixteenth-century frescoes on the façade. Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km Rovereto's bell, cast from the bronze of every belligerent's cannon. sacrario militare di Castel Dante 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km The First World War ossuary on the hill above Rovereto, with about twenty thousand fallen of several nations. Castel Lizzana 📍 Rovereto · 9.0 km The scant remains of the Castelbarco castle above Lizzana, destroyed by the Venetians in 1439, in the memorial grounds.