Patron saint festival
Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows
📅 Every year, on 15 September
On 15 September Villanova Mondovì celebrates Our Lady of Sorrows; the village also has the Sanctuary of Saint Lucy.
The village ran away from the river. The first settlement stood at San Nicolao, but the Ellero changed course and ended up running under and inside the walls of the old parish church; the chapel raised on the ruins was levelled by another flood in 1300. The people then moved up to the hill of Villavecchia, where a small church already stood.
Independence had to be won more than once. Rewarded in the sixteenth century for its loyalty to Savoy with separation from Mondovì, it was besieged by the French, sacked and burned in 1554 and forced back together with the city; separation came again in the seventeenth century, and the autonomous comune only in 1698.
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Insigne collegiata parrocchiale di Santa Maria Maggiore 📍 Guglionesi · 12 km Beneath the late Baroque, a 12th-century crypt with two surviving frescoes. Torre di Petacciato 📍 Petacciato · 12 km A coastal tower of 1568, split in two by a landslide in 1777. Old Termoli 📍 Termoli · 15 km A walled Adriatic promontory featuring an 11th-century castle, a Romanesque cathedral, and historic wooden trabucchi. chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Guardialfiera · 17 km A Holy Door that opens every year, except when it is a Jubilee. Riserva naturale regionale Marina di Vasto 📍 Vasto · 16 km Three kilometres of dunes and wetlands between Vasto and San Salvo, where the Kentish plover nests. cattedrale di Santa Maria della Purificazione 📍 Termoli · 19 km Dragons and griffins on the front, and a crypt with a Romanesque mosaic floor.