Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel
📅 Every year, on 29 September
On 29 September Macerata Feltria celebrates Saint Michael the Archangel; the village also preserves the Torre di Cerignano.
The name is an inventory of rubble. On the flat below the village stood Pitinum Pisaurense, a Roman town that lived by timber; the Ostrogoths destroyed it in the sixth century. In the eleventh, with the stones of that ruin, people raised the castle that still stands: and the new place kept the name of what had served to build it, the rubble.
In the Middle Ages Macerata belonged to the Malatesta of Rimini: a Malatesta island inside Montefeltro land. At the end of the nineteenth century Filippo Belli built on the Apsa a palace with a silkworm house and a spinning mill beside it, for silk. After the last war half the village left, nearly all of them for Genoa.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Macerata Feltria 1
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🍝 The flavours of Macerata Feltria
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 Macerata Feltria
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Macerata Feltria, but an easy day trip away.
Palazzo Ducale e Galleria Nazionale delle Marche 📍 Urbino · 9.3 km Federico's studiolo, 3.60 by 3.35 metres of inlay, and Piero della Francesca's Flagellation. Duomo di Urbino 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km The cathedral rebuilt by Valadier after the earthquakes, beside Federico da Montefeltro's Ducal Palace. Casa Santi 📍 Urbino · 9.0 km The house where Raphael was born in 1483, his father's workshop on the ground floor. Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista e Sant'Antonio abate 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km Urbino's oratory with the Salimbeni frescoes, a late gothic masterpiece. pieve di San Salvatore 📍 Rimini · 21 km Pieve di San Salvatore in Rimini, a Romanesque church on an ancient temple, with a plaque from 1318. Villa Caprile 📍 Pesaro · 23 km Seventeenth-century Baroque villa above Pesaro with an Italian garden and water games still working.