In 1861 Cercemaggiore was taken from Molise and put into the new province of Benevento, in Campania. It took sixty-six years of political battles to get back: it is the only one of the Molise comuni detached then that recovered its province, in 1927.
The name comes from the cerro, the Turkey oak, the tree that is also on the arms. Above the town stands the sanctuary of Santa Maria della Libera, with the wooden statue of the Madonna of 1412; the baronial palace is the old Lombard castle, which don Diomede Carafa turned into a residence in the sixteenth century. On the mountain, the church of Santa Maria al Monte is twelfth-century. The 3,927 residents live south-east of Campobasso.
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📅 Every year, on 11 September
Cercemaggiore celebrates Saint Vincent the martyr on 11 September; the town, home to the sanctuary of the Madonna della Libera built in the 15th century, only returned to the province of Campobasso in 1927, after 66 years of political battles.
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Outside Cercemaggiore, but an easy day trip away.
