Eremo di San Michele Arcangelo, Mountain hermitage in Maranola, Italy.

The Eremo di San Michele Arcangelo is a small church set into the rock on a sheer ridge of Mount Altino, at 1220 m in the Aurunci Mountains, above Maranola in the territory of Formia. Its west-facing stone facade, with a pointed-arch doorway and a rose window, was rebuilt in Neo-Gothic style in 1893 to the design of engineer Silvio Forte of Trivio. The rock was squared to form a hall twelve metres long, ten wide and seven high, and a niche cut in the rear wall holds the statue of Saint Michael.

Records from the 9th century document this religious site as a place of spiritual refuge in the mountain region. The structure visible today, marked by its Neo-Gothic style, was reconstructed and updated in the 1890s.

Each year, on the Sunday after 13 June and the Sunday before 29 September, the men of Maranola carry the statue of Saint Michael on foot along the mountain paths. The 94 cm peperino effigy, restored in 1888 by sculptor Giuseppe Blasetti, stays on the mountain all summer and is brought back down to the church of the Annunziata before the 29 September feast.

The trail to the hermitage starts from Sella Sola, not from Rifugio Pornito, and runs 7.3 km, taking about an hour and a half. The route is easy and suited to families, but it is fully exposed to the sun, so it is not advised in high summer.

The saint's statue, 94 cm tall in peperino stone, was restored in 1888 by sculptor Giuseppe Blasetti. Its carved initials "P. F." point to Pompeo Ferrucci (1566–1637), so the image is likely 16th- or 17th-century rather than Roman. Each year men of Maranola carry it up to the hermitage on the Sundays after 13 June and before 29 September.