Patron saint festival In 298 days
Feast of Saint Clare
📅 Every year, on 11 August
On 11 August Marciana Marina, a municipality of 1,946 inhabitants in the province of Livorno, celebrates its patroness Saint Clare (santa Chiara).
It is the smallest municipality in Tuscany by area, and in the eighteenth century, when the harbour was busy, they called it the «Little Marseille». The first houses stood at the Cotone, which in the local speech means a big boulder, beside a natural landing place; the first stone of the real harbour was laid on 10 September 1911.
In the coat of arms, granted in 1886, there are three golden bees: a nod to Napoleon's heraldry, which Elba remembers well. The Paolina beach carries a Napoleonic name too, but a hotel keeper gave it in 1949: before that it was called Castiglioncello, and there are the ruins of a Roman building there. Since 2012 the village has been the set of I delitti del BarLume.
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Museo diocesano di Rieti 📍 Rieti · 17 km Rieti's diocesan museum, a route through baptistery, sacristies, lapidarium and the Papal Palace gallery. Oratorio di San Pietro martire 📍 Rieti · 17 km The chapel of Rieti's San Domenico convent with the Torresani brothers' Last Judgement, rarely open. Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Sallust's Sabine city under the fields: a theatre, an amphitheatre and a whole Amiternum never excavated. chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo 📍 L'Aquila · 23 km Romanesque church at San Vittorino with fifth-century catacombs, near ancient Amiternum. Teatro romano di Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Augustan theatre of ancient Amiternum, near San Vittorino, with opus reticulatum walls.