Patron saint festival
Feast of Saints Cosmas and Damian
📅 Every year, on 26 September
On 26 September Lunano celebrates Saints Cosmas and Damian; the village is also known for its Chestnut Festival, which reached its 53rd edition in 2025.
In 1213 Saint Francis passed through here, and the story goes that he gave a blind boy his sight back by washing his eyes with water from a well: the well is still there, in the courtyard of the convent of Monte Illuminato, above the village. In the church hangs a Saint Francis in adoration attributed to Carlo Maratta.
The castle belonged to the Ubaldini, then to the Brancaleone, lords of the Massa Trabaria, whom cardinal Albornoz drove out in 1358 and Boniface IX put back in 1392; in 1424 the Montefeltro arrived. In the square a plaque recalls Garibaldi passing through, and the chestnut festival, in October, reached its fifty-third edition in 2025.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Lunano 1
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🍝 The flavours of Lunano
Casciotta d'Urbino soft cheese of sheep's and cow's milk, delicate flavour
Sheep's and cow's milk, aged twenty to thirty days: casciotta d'Urbino, Michelangelo's favourite cheese, has been DOP since 1996.
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Near Lunano
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Lunano, but an easy day trip away.
Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 11 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 11 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 12 km Romanesque pieve of 1184, the oldest church in Carpi, with a Peruzzi façade and twelfth-century frescoes. Chiesa di San Bernardino da Siena 📍 Carpi · 12 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.