Patron saint festival In 42 days
Feast of Saint Catherine of Alexandria
📅 Every year, on 25 November
On 25 November Marciana celebrates its patron Saint Catherine of Alexandria, to whom the town's church is dedicated.
The Appiano princes, who held Elba, chose Marciana for the summer and set up a mint here; of their time there remain the gate of Donna Paola and the chapel of Sant'Agapito. The village's coat of arms, an anvil between two picks, was used for decades without anyone ever having granted it: they put it all in order only in 2019.
In the sea in front of this coast some of the most important Roman wrecks in Italy have been found: the one at Procchio, the one at Chiessi and the two at Sant'Andrea. High up, on Monte Capanne, there remain the prehistoric settlements and the caprili, the shepherds' stone shelters, which here all have a name: di Capepe, della Stretta, di Natalino. On 20 November 1943 the Wehrmacht carried out a round-up at Marciana and in the villages nearby.
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Places to see within 25 km
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Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 11 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 11 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 12 km Romanesque pieve of 1184, the oldest church in Carpi, with a Peruzzi façade and twelfth-century frescoes. Chiesa di San Bernardino da Siena 📍 Carpi · 12 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.