After the earthquake of 1328 Visso came down from the hill to the valley floor, around the pieve of Santa Maria, and from then on it suffered no comparable damage: until 2016. The municipality was divided into guaite — the Pieve, Ussita, the Montana, the Villa and the Pagese — and each elected its own prior, who sat in the palace that still bears the name.
The mountains gave little, and the people of Visso trespassed: the last great quarrel with Norcia over the pastures above Gualdo was settled in 1522 by the battle of Pian Perduto, on the plateau of Castelluccio. It is told by a mock-heroic poem of the seventeenth century, anything but impartial, attributed to a shepherd poet. In 1822 Visso was given the title of city, with the motto Antiquum et fidele Vissum.
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📅 Every year, on 24 June
On 24 June Visso, a municipality of 1,180 inhabitants in the province of Macerata, celebrates its patron Saint John the Baptist with its characteristic fair.
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Outside Visso, but an easy day trip away.
