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Marradi, ospitalità, sagre e turismo itinerante


Perched on the slopes of the Lamone river valley, Marradi welcomes the warmth of its hospitality to the tourists who come wandering in the old village. Centrally situated between the towns of Tuscany and Emilia Romagna along what was the Gothic Line, Marradi today can experience the historical and cultural tourism in contact with nature and discover the ancient traditions attractions of this land border.















Today there are many facilities that offer pleasant stay during which you can take an extensive network of trails to explore monasteries, towers, castles and beautiful landscapes. The Abbey of Santa Reparata dating to the eleventh century, which houses magnificent fifteenth-century painting attributed to the Master of Marradi, Hermitage Gamogna, Barberry Abbey, the Abbey of St. John and Rock of Acerreta Castiglionchio that with its size of the sixth century dominates the landscape of the valley, certainly worth a visit.














The old town attracts visitors showing an urban fabric similar to the Tuscan cities of art, difficult to find in the Apennines, made of narrow, cobbled streets and squares, surrounded by elegant palaces result of the transfer of important families in Marradi such as noble and Torriani Fabroni. The living city is the beautiful Piazza The Scalelle, which overlooks the communal porch, Fabroni palace and the church's suffrage.

A fascinating course of the Lamone River running through the center of town skirting the buildings in a succession of arches and bridges and on the right bank dominated by the bulk of the Theatre of mind. At the Cultural Center dedicated to the poet Dino Campana, who was born here and who showed great attachment to their land, as evidenced by "The Orphic Songs" is the important Campaniani Research Center, a reference point for scholars from around the world, in addition to the Museum Artists Campana collecting important works including 68 sculptures and paintings by contemporary artists dedicated to the poet, then, the museum Lanfranco Raparo that collects some of the most important works of the artist.













At the Documentation Center on Chestnut, a unique example in Europe, but you can see interesting works that portray the chestnut and its fruit today identified as "Good Marron Marradi PGI, one of the top of the Mugello. The love and care lavished on this plant for the exploitation and production of the same make it a real local landmark, so that during the weekend of October this product always present in the local cuisine with recipes handed down by memory of older people, is dedicated to the famous "Chestnut Festival" and visitors to drop in times and places far is set up a romantic steam train that connects Marradi in Florence, for an unforgettable journey through the Apennines.















Marradi not just chestnuts, in fact, there are many events held in the village and the municipality, from the month of May with the "Festival of Bread" which aims at enhancing the stupid bread, or unsalted as a typical product reality of our gastronomic and during the event you can taste it, accompanied by tomatoes, jams, chocolate and cold cuts, introducing the lively Summer Marradi "during which they held:" The Golden Grill, (late July early August) a kind of prize that are engaged in various districts of the town parades with costumes and sporting challenges, "Ceiling Square" (every Thursday in July and August) a picturesque street market and hobby where there rarely good deals concluded, "The Night of the Witches" (around mid August) night folk that evokes the ancestral atmosphere of the Middle Ages and the witch hunt. Marradi year ends with Christmas markets that, retracing the Nordic tradition, during the first three Sundays of December, the historic center has been transformed into a fairy village.

Marradi, offers, therefore, a thousand opportunities for a visit or for a break even during a wandering among the Apennines, along the roads linking Romagna and Tuscany.

For more information about events, festivals and events in the municipality of Marradi contact the Tourist Association Pro Loco Marradi phone number 055.8045170

or write to the inbox info@pro-marradi.it
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