Patron saint festival In 258 days
Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
📅 Every year, on 29 June
On 29 June Smerillo, a municipality of 389 inhabitants in the province of Fermo, celebrates its patrons Saints Peter and Paul.
They call it the roof of the Marche: from this spur of rock, halfway between the Sibillini mountains and the Adriatic, you can see the Gran Sasso, the Conero and the sea. The name probably comes from the merlin, the little falcon the feudal lord hunted with, and the falcon is in the coat of arms — arms the village never had officially granted: they exist only in the municipal statute.
In the sandstone opens the Fessa, a cleft full of Pliocene fossils. And then, for a village of a few hundred people, there is a surprising amount of culture: a museum of natural sciences, a gallery of contemporary art, a museum of children's art devoted to peace, a mountain festival in July and a permanent school of orienteering. They also call it the citadel of poetry.
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Places to see within 25 km
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Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.