Discover what to do in Marano Vicentino: the Feast of Carmine, the Corn Festival, the Church of Santa Maria Annunziata. Do you want to know more? First of all…
Where is Marano Vicentino?
The municipality of Marano Vicentino borders to the northeast with Zanè, to the northwest with Schio, to the south with Malo, to the east with Zanè and Thiene, to the west with Schio and San Vito di Leguzzano.
The Feast of Carmine
The commemoration of the Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel is held every July 16, although the celebration also takes place in the days immediately before and after this date. The 2022 edition of the Feast of Carmine took place from July 15 to 18. To stay updated on the next appointment of the fair, we recommend visiting the municipal website.
The fair is set up every year in the large spaces of the sports fields in Viale Europa and includes vast catering areas where you can taste exquisite dishes of Vicenza cuisine, including delicious bigoli and gnocchi with duck ragù, fried potatoes, and sizzling grilled meat specialties whose inviting aroma spreads inside the large tent structures. There will be rivers of beer and top-quality wines.
In addition to solemn liturgical functions, the event offers dancing evenings to the rhythm of talented rock bands, Latin American sounds, and orchestras for ballroom dancing.
The occasion also includes quiet walks to discover the pleasant rural landscape of Marano and will be concluded by spectacular firework displays.
If you are wondering what to do in Marano Vicentino and want to spend the summer with live music and local specialties that make your mouth water, participating in the Feast of Carmine might be just right for you!
The Corn Festival
The Corn Festival is held every year in the first half of October in the area of the sports facilities in Viale Europa, 50. The 2022 edition of the festival took place from October 7 to 9 and brings together both the local population and tourists and visitors from all over the region.
What makes the folkloric celebration so engaging are the re-enactments that pass down the centuries-old artisanal and agricultural activities that marked the days of our grandparents and great-grandparents.
Fundamental for the sustenance of the community, the cultivation of corn once brought entire families together during the work of plowing, sowing, harvesting, and processing the corn.
The ears of corn were shelled by hand in the courtyards of farmhouses, the grinding of grains took place using heavy millstones driven by the waters of clear streams channeled into stone channels, the cobs were used to light the fire and the dry corn leaves were also used to create elaborate baskets.
Corn flour was mixed and cooked in large cauldrons to prepare polenta, a nutritious food rich in carbohydrates, proteins, and minerals, very widespread in northern Italy and especially in farming communities.
To overcome boredom, children would weave corn leaves to build dolls, animals, use the cobs as boats, and get lost chasing each other in mazes of tall dry stalks, thus training, without realizing it, creativity, practical intelligence, and initiative, virtues that modern virtual communication media, whose spread is increasingly pervasive especially among young people, weaken and replace with superficial entertainment always at hand that tends to atrophy the imagination and alienate from the sun and nature.
If you are wondering what to do in Marano Vicentino and are curious about the idea of taking a journey back in time to rediscover the ancient customs that bound man to the land in a carefree atmosphere with craft workshops, displays of vintage machinery and tractors, and tasty and healthy products, visiting the Corn Festival is certainly a recommended experience!
The Church of Santa Maria Annunziata
Standing in the historic center of the municipality at Via IV Novembre, 22, the parish church is distinguished by a majestic neoclassical facade punctuated by four Corinthian half-columns framing two semicircular niches adorned with two statues: on the left a winged figure, on the right a female figure, both crowned with a halo.
Completing the vertical development of the structure is the triangular dentiled pediment culminating with three elegant sculptures.
Accessible via a white staircase, the place of worship is surrounded by well-kept tree vegetation including dark and imposing cedars, olive trees with knotty and pale trunks, towering cypresses, yews with unnatural rounded crowns, and a magnolia with shiny leaves that glisten in the sun.
