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Feast of the Assumption of Mary
📅 Every year, on 15 August
On 15 August Marentino, a municipality of 1,383 inhabitants in the metropolitan city of Turin, celebrates the Assumption of Mary (Assunzione di Maria).
Marentino is the sum of three villages long independent of each other: Marentino, Avuglione and Vernone, joined into a single municipality by a royal decree of 1927. The name is thought to be Latin, a diminutive of Emerentius, hinting at a Roman-era settlement; in the cellar of a house in the old centre a Christian hypogeum of the sixth or seventh century was found, probably Lombard.
The village you see today sits on the hill once held by the local lord's stronghold. Of that stronghold the defensive tower remains: it became the base of the parish bell tower, raised higher in 1764, and it is what you pick out from the fields below.
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Cappella di villa Mirabello 📍 Monza · 2.9 km Chapel of villa Mirabello in the Parco di Monza: the Durini villa of 1656-1675, oldest in the park. Villa Reale 📍 Monza · 4.1 km Villa Reale of Monza, Piermarini's neoclassical palace begun in 1777, home to Habsburgs, Napoleon and Savoy. Chiesa di Santa Maria al Carrobiolo 📍 Monza · 4.8 km Church of Santa Maria al Carrobiolo in Monza, with works by Peterzano and Moncalvo, vault frescoed 1707-1709. Chiesa di San Pietro Martire 📍 Monza · 4.8 km San Pietro Martire in Monza, 14th-century church for the Dominican killed in 1252, with a 15th-century cloister. Santuario del Santo Crocifisso 📍 Desio · 5.1 km Desio's Neo-Gothic sanctuary, home to a sixteenth-century crucifix that was crowned in 1948. Duomo di Monza 📍 Monza · 5.2 km Monza Cathedral, founded by Queen Theodelinda around 595, home of the Iron Crown.