Patron saint festival In 99 days
Saint John the Almsgiver, the winter feast
📅 Every year, on 23 January
Morciano di Leuca celebrates Saint John the Almsgiver on 23 January, with a second observance in the last ten days of July.
The village was born in the ninth century, when the people of Vereto, destroyed by the Saracens, moved here. Much later, in 1335, the fief came to Walter VI of Brienne, who built the castle to hold off the designs of the count of Caserta: that castle is still in the coat of arms, where before there were three hills, the letter M and two olive branches.
Morciano was under Patù and became a municipality of its own only on the first of August 1838; in 1894 it also took Barbarano del Capo, which belonged to Salve. In the Barbarano land two vore open up, the sinkholes of the Salento karst: the Great one goes down thirty-four metres, the Small one twenty-five. In the chapel of the Madonna of Constantinople there is a monolith with a sixteenth-century Virgin painted over a fresco of the tenth.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Morciano di Leuca 2
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Patron saint festival In 278 days
Saint John the Almsgiver's summer feast
📅 Every year, in the last ten days of July
Morciano di Leuca celebrates Saint John the Almsgiver a second time in the last ten days of July.
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Near Morciano di Leuca
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Morciano di Leuca, but an easy day trip away.
Città Alta and the Venetian Walls 📍 Bergamo · 18 km A 6,200-meter wall built by Venice in the 16th century, this UNESCO World Heritage site encloses Bergamo Alta. Accademia Carrara 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The count founded the gallery and the school together, so pupils could copy from life. Teatro Gaetano Donizetti 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The theatre born where wooden huts once stood, now Donizetti's home. basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore 📍 Bergamo · 18 km The church without a façade in Bergamo's upper town: Campione's lions and the intarsias designed by Lotto. chiesa dei Santi Bartolomeo e Stefano 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The lower Bergamo church with the Martinengo altarpiece, Lotto's largest. chiesa di Santo Spirito 📍 Bergamo · 17 km Bergamo church called «of the Tasso», with Lorenzo Lotto's 1521 altarpiece and the via Pignolo chapels.