Overview
The name of the town "Muranum" is mentioned in the "Lapis Pollae", a milestone from the second century BC found in Polla, in the Vallo di Diano valley. Therefore, it was probably a "station" of the Capua-Regium consular road, Calabria's only connection to the mainland.
It is called "the Pollino Nativity Scene" for its natural panorama of the Calabrian side of the Pollino massif (2248 m), dominated by the peaks of Dolcedorme (2267 m) and Serra del Prete (2186 m), depicted by the Dutch engraver and graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher, who visited in 1930.
There are many points of historical-architectural interest: the castle and the palaces of the nobility, but also the Collegiata della Maddalena church, dating back to the Byzantine period, with its dome and bell tower covered in polychrome majolica; the Collegiata dei Santi Pietro e Paolo (11th century), which houses four marble statues by Pietro Bernini and wooden furnishings by Morano cabinet-makers; the remains of the Monastery of Colloreto (1546), 7 km from the town at the foot of the Pollino.
87016 Morano Calabro CS, Italia
