Marano di Napoli

Sister cities

• Durrës

History

The Maranese territory shows anthropological traces dating back to the Neolithic age which tells us how this area has been inhabited since ancient ages: in fact settlements dating back approximately 8,000 years ago (along the Marano-San Rocco route) have been found. From the Osco-Samnite period we find traces especially in the area of Masseria Spinosa, Vallesana and Monteleone; however most of them have been destroyed leaving today only three still viable roads, namely Cupa dei Cani, Pendine and Cupa Orlando. With the Roman period we have a real flowering area which has become a crossroads of economic, recreational and religious activities, as it is located along the Via Campana which connected Pozzuoli (an important commercial port in the imperial period) to Capua (connected to Rome with the Appian Way). Evidence from the Roman period are the Mausoleo del Ciaurro (the most important funerary architectural work in Campania) and five statues preserved in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples depicting a freedman named Dama, his wife Terzia (both belonged to Emperor Tiberius), Hercules and two fauns. Following the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and the loss of power of the Eastern Roman Empire in the region, it become part of the Kingdom of Sicily and then of the Kingdom of Naples. In these centuries the original nucleuses of the city arose: a village called Balisano (or Vallesana), another that was the real is its hamlet of Marano (and therefore identifiable in the historical center) and the hamlet of Turris Marano (or Marano delle Torri) near Monteleone. Just in the area of Monteleone the emperor Frederick II had a castle built as a hunting lodge, which, on his death, was set on fire due to a popular uprising; was rebuilt by King Charles I of Anjou in 1275,…

Most-observed species

• Yellow-legged Gull

  Larus michahellis J.F.Naumann, 1840 · Aves
  2,386
• Hooded Crow

  Corvus cornix Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,681
• Eurasian Magpie

  Pica pica (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,507
• Rock Pigeon

  Columba livia J.F.Gmelin, 1789 · Aves
  1,470
• Eurasian Kestrel

  Falco tinnunculus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,397
• Little Egret/Western Reef-Heron

  Egretta garzetta (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  1,307
• Italian Sparrow

  Passer italiae (Vieillot, 1817) · Aves
  1,271
• Mallard

  Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,217

Most recent

• M 4.1 — 2026-05-21
  2 km E of Procida, Italy
• M 6 — 2026-03-09
  16 km SSE of Sant'Angelo, Italy
• M 4.7 — 2026-02-21
  5 km WSW of Licinella-Torre di Paestum, Italy
• M 4.1 — 2025-11-18
  16 km ESE of Ventotene, Italy
• M 4.4 — 2025-10-25
  3 km WNW of Summonte, Italy
• M 4 — 2025-10-24
  0 km SSE of Torrioni, Italy