Patron saint festival In 268 days
Feast of Saint Veronica
📅 Every year, on 9 July
On 9 July Mercatello sul Metauro, a municipality of 1,437 inhabitants in the province of Pesaro e Urbino, celebrates its patroness Saint Veronica.
In 1235 pope Gregory IX proposed gathering into the territory of the pieve the people of the seven castles that stood around it: from then the borgo became a fortified comune and took the name it has, from the markets held there. Free and subject to the popes alone it had been declared already.
In 1361 Branca Brancaleoni bought it for five thousand gold florins, and with the marriage of Federico da Montefeltro to Gentile Brancaleoni, lady of Mercatello, the town went as a dowry to the duke of Urbino; in 1437 it entered the duchy. Saint Veronica Giuliani was born here: her house stands inside the Capuchin nuns' monastery, and has been a sanctuary since 1949.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Mercatello sul Metauro 1
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🍝 The flavours of Mercatello sul Metauro
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 Mercatello sul Metauro
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Places to see within 25 km
Outside Mercatello sul Metauro, but an easy day trip away.
Castellana Caves 📍 Castellana Grotte · 1.8 km A 3,348-meter karst cave system mapped in 1938, noted for its 60-meter-deep skylight and dazzling white formations. Santuario di Maria Santissima Regina del Mondo 📍 Monopoli · 6.4 km The sanctuary in the Antonelli district of Monopoli, rebuilt as a vow for the town's safety and consecrated in 1950. Rione Monti 📍 Alberobello · 13 km The 1,030 trulli of Alberobello's larger quarter, laid dry-stone to dodge a tax. Trullo Sovrano 📍 Alberobello · 12 km With walls reaching 2.70 metres in thickness, the Trullo Sovrano is the supreme example of dry-stone architecture. Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali 📍 Polignano a Mare · 13 km Puglia's only permanent contemporary art museum, set in a former slaughterhouse overlooking the sea in Polignano. Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate 📍 Fasano · 17 km The Observant friars' church in Fasano, with its dome, onion-spired bell tower and frescoed 1600s cloister.