Patron saint festival In 47 days
Saint Andrew, patron of Marciano della Chiana
📅 Every year, on 30 November
Marciano della Chiana celebrates Saint Andrew on 30 November, in the church dedicated to him together with Saint Stephen.
On the second of August 1554, under these walls, the battle of Scannagallo was fought: the Medici army, with the fortress of Marciano as its bulwark, drove back Piero Strozzi's Sienese, and with that day the Republic of Siena ended. Giorgio Vasari painted it twice for the Salone dei Cinquecento in Florence; and the Medici repaid Marciano's service by letting it put the Florentine lily in its arms.
The castle was not made to be lived in: its plan is a rectangle bending into a trapezium, and that sets it apart from the neighbouring villages, built to be dwelt in and not to fight. The name comes from the fundus Marcianus, the estate of a gens Marcia; and of the Etruscans there remains the Torso of Marciano, a warrior of the sixth century before Christ.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Marciano della Chiana, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Marco 📍 Rovereto · 5.3 km The parish church of Marco di Rovereto, documented from 1180 and rebuilt after the First World War. Biotopo Lavini di Marco 📍 Rovereto · 6.8 km The landslide from Monte Zugna, with dinosaur trackways discovered in 1990 and two small lakes. chiesa di San Floriano 📍 Rovereto · 8.5 km The old mother church of Lizzana, parent of Rovereto's churches, with two sixteenth-century frescoes on the façade. Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km Rovereto's bell, cast from the bronze of every belligerent's cannon. sacrario militare di Castel Dante 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km The First World War ossuary on the hill above Rovereto, with about twenty thousand fallen of several nations. Castel Lizzana 📍 Rovereto · 9.0 km The scant remains of the Castelbarco castle above Lizzana, destroyed by the Venetians in 1439, in the memorial grounds.