The name has two readings: some derive it from the Latin Petra Maricorum, after the Marici, the Ligurian tribe that founded the place; others from Petra Maratiorum, after the noble Marazzi who held the village in fief. On the golden field of the arms stands, in blue letters, the inscription Petra Maratiorum.
The old core sits on a knoll above the left bank of the Tanaro, closed on three sides by the Bricco di San Giovanni, Monte Mariano and Bricco Sant'Ilario; the Romans came in 222 BC. South of it the hamlet Pavone looks down from 137 metres on the mouth of the Bormida. San Martino, the parish church, shows bare brick, three rose windows and an octagonal lantern.
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📅 Every year, on 16 July
On 16 July Pietra Marazzi, a municipality of 900 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patroness the Madonna del Carmine (Our Lady of Mount Carmel).
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Outside Pietra Marazzi, but an easy day trip away.
