Holiday apartment in Villagrande – art, spring and destinations in the surrounding area

Villagrande: art, culture and destinations in the surrounding area

Villagrande draws attention to the Church of Santa Susanna and the works of Ciro Pavisa, the restored Fonte del Pontaccio, olive oil from the municipality of Mombaroccio and destinations in the surrounding area. From Pesaro, the route leads via Santa Maria dell’Arzilla and Villagrande to Mombaroccio; the distance is approximately 20 km. When choosing a holiday apartment in Villagrande, you can therefore decide on the focus you want for your stay without losing sight of the other destinations in the surrounding area.

Santa Susanna and Ciro Pavisa

The Church of Santa Susanna preserves some of Pavisa’s significant early works. It contains a 14-part Stations of the Cross painted by Ciro Pavisa on canvas and plywood in 1968. Via di Ciro Pavisa runs through Villagrande and includes the Church of Santa Susanna, which is decorated with the artist’s original frescoes. Before it was relocated to Villagrande, the church was restored and expanded from a Greek-cross floor plan to a Latin-cross floor plan. The combination of paintings, frescoes and structural alterations gives the cultural themes in Villagrande several clearly distinguishable facets.

Feast day and religious wayside shrines

The feast day of Santa Susanna falls on the third Sunday in July. The Edicola di Villagrande is one of approximately nine religious wayside shrines still present in the municipality of Mombaroccio today. Such shrines serve believers as destinations for processions and Marian paths.

Spring and olive oil

The restored and functioning Fonte del Pontaccio spring supplies oligomineral water, which is also bottled by people from other places. At L'ARTIST, the company owned by Alfiero Vagnini, extra virgin olive oil is produced from olives grown in the company’s own olive groves in the municipality of Mombaroccio and bottled at the laboratory in Villagrande, Via della Celletta. For planning your holiday, these two themes complement the cultural destinations with tangible links to water and regional food production. When choosing a holiday apartment or holiday house in Villagrande, you can incorporate these focal points into your personal trip planning.

Holiday apartment in Villagrande: culture and landscape

The Museo della Civiltà Contadina, Grotte, Arte Sacra museum is located in the immediate vicinity of Villagrande. The surrounding area also includes Villa Augusta palace, the Villa Miralfiore museum and the Ducal Palace. The Monte San Bartolo mountain and the beaches of Miramare Beach, Bagni Due Palme and Arzilla are also located in the surrounding area. The selection therefore ranges from museums and palaces to mountain and beach destinations. For you, this means a broad range of themes from which to plan your days between culture, landscape and destinations by the water.

More places for planning your trip

Other places that you can include in your trip planning are Città Di Castello, Sassofeltrio, Monte Cerignone, Frontino, Sant'Ippolito, Montesoffio, Lunano and Mercatello Sul Metauro.

For the overarching travel overview: Pesaro - Urbino.