On the arms there is a sheaf of seven ears of wheat, and seven because — so the official explanation goes — the people here are so tireless that they work all seven days of the week. The name is the patron's: Saint Andrew, protector of fishermen, since fishing was what they lived on; from Andreano, losing an e, came Andrano.
The church of San Domenico stands over a building the Saraceno family raised in 1486 to receive one of their own, killed by the Turks at the siege of Otranto and buried here. On the high altar a fifteenth-century fresco shows the Madonna delle Grazie pushing back the Saracen attack: the family's name and the enemy's are the same word. Not far off, in a natural crypt, there are faint fourteenth-century frescoes and a Templar cross scratched into the stone.
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📅 Every year, on 30 November; the Madonna delle Grazie is also venerated
Andrano celebrates Saint Andrew the Apostle on 30 November. The town also honours the Madonna delle Grazie with her own patronal feast.
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Outside Andrano, but an easy day trip away.
