Patron saint festival In 244 days
Feast of Saints Vitus and Modestus
📅 Every year, on 15 June
On 15 June Mombaroccio, a municipality of 2,134 inhabitants in the province of Pesaro and Urbino, celebrates its patrons Saint Vitus and Saint Modestus.
The coat of arms, granted in 2000, lines up six hills: five are the castles whose union made Mombaroccio, and of the sixth nothing more is known. Beside them is a biroccio, the farm cart of the Marche: the village stood on the border between the Foglia and the Metauro valleys, and its workshops repaired the carts that went through. The lilies belong to the Del Monte, lords here from 1543.
In 1944 the convent of Beato Sante was hiding three hundred civilians, among them the family of Alfredo Sarano, secretary of the Jewish community of Milan, who had kept from the Germans the lists of more than fourteen thousand Jews. The German commander knew and did not report them; after thirty-six hours of Allied shelling on the Gothic Line, the three hundred came out alive from under the rubble.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Mombaroccio 1
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🍝 The flavours of Mombaroccio
Casciotta d'Urbino soft cheese of sheep's and cow's milk, delicate flavour
Sheep's and cow's milk, aged twenty to thirty days: casciotta d'Urbino, Michelangelo's favourite cheese, has been DOP since 1996.
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Near Mombaroccio
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Mombaroccio, but an easy day trip away.
Castellana Caves 📍 Castellana Grotte · 1.8 km A 3,348-meter karst cave system mapped in 1938, noted for its 60-meter-deep skylight and dazzling white formations. Santuario di Maria Santissima Regina del Mondo 📍 Monopoli · 6.4 km The sanctuary in the Antonelli district of Monopoli, rebuilt as a vow for the town's safety and consecrated in 1950. Rione Monti 📍 Alberobello · 13 km The 1,030 trulli of Alberobello's larger quarter, laid dry-stone to dodge a tax. Trullo Sovrano 📍 Alberobello · 12 km With walls reaching 2.70 metres in thickness, the Trullo Sovrano is the supreme example of dry-stone architecture. Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali 📍 Polignano a Mare · 13 km Puglia's only permanent contemporary art museum, set in a former slaughterhouse overlooking the sea in Polignano. Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate 📍 Fasano · 17 km The Observant friars' church in Fasano, with its dome, onion-spired bell tower and frescoed 1600s cloister.