Marano Ticino sits on the Piedmontese bank of the river, in the nature park of the Ticino valley; westward the ground rises into morainic hills long suited to the vine. The name comes from Maranus, the land of a Mario; the second half is recent, since a decree of Victor Emmanuel II turned Marano into Marano Ticino only in 1862.
Little is left of the stronghold of 1260: villa Castiglioni Ostini is its eighteenth-century rebuilding, keeping traces of the curtain wall and a battlemented gate tower. East of the village stands San Pietro, the parish church until 1847: it sits on a terrace of river pebbles and brick courses, with a columned porch before the door and a bell turret on the ridge.
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📅 Every year, on 16 July
On 16 July Marano Ticino, a municipality of 1,554 inhabitants in the province of Novara, celebrates its patroness the Madonna del Carmine (Our Lady of Mount Carmel).
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Outside Marano Ticino, but an easy day trip away.
