Patron saint festival In 253 days
Feast of Saint Maximus
📅 Every year, on 25 June
On 25 June Marmora, a municipality of 74 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates its patron Saint Maximus.
At Marmora the town hall stands in the hamlet of Vernetti, and the rest of the municipality lies scattered over the slopes of the Maira valley in some fifteen hamlets — Reinero, Tolosano, Torello, Urzio, Arata, Ponte Marmora —, in Occitan-speaking country, where the name is La Marmol. A chapel at San Sebastiano keeps frescoes painted around 1450 by Giovanni Baleison of Demonte: beside scenes from the life of Christ and of the patron saint come episodes from the apocryphal gospels, the midwife Zachele and the miracle of the growing wheat, said to have happened during the flight into Egypt.
The arms are quartered: the letter M, a crowned double-headed eagle, a silver sheep on green ground and a blue lion. Eagle and lion come from the arms of the La Marmora of Biella, a family whose fortunes joined the village in 1610, when Charles Emmanuel I made the four sons of Gian Giorgio Ferrero counts of Marmora and Canosio; the council asked their descendants' permission before taking them.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Marmora, but an easy day trip away.
Chiesa di Santa Maria 📍 Cantù · 12 km The octagonal seventeenth-century church built for the Benedictine nuns of Cantù, beside today's town hall. chiesa dei Santi Materno e Lucia (complesso) 📍 Lecco · 12 km The friary of Fra Cristoforo from The Betrothed, in Pescarenico, with a canvas by Cerano. Basilica di San Nicolò 📍 Lecco · 12 km Lecco's principal church, with its 96-metre neo-Gothic bell tower built on a Spanish bastion. Mura di Lecco 📍 Lecco · 12 km The triangular Visconti walls that enclosed Lecco, of which the Torre Viscontea and the Vallo survive. villa Manzoni 📍 Lecco · 13 km Alessandro Manzoni's family home in Lecco, now a Manzoni museum and art gallery. chiesa di San Giuseppe al Caleotto 📍 Lecco · 13 km The tent-shaped church of the Caleotto in Lecco, in reinforced concrete with parabolic arches, from 1951.