Badesse between Festival Culture, History and Landscape

Badesse between Festival Culture and Everyday Village Life

Badesse combines a festival held regularly in July with historic buildings, surrounding mountains and a clearly recognizable village structure. For planning your trip, festival culture, architectural history, landscape and practical orientation can all be considered together here. This makes the village particularly interesting if you want to get to know not just a single destination, but also the surroundings and everyday life of an Italian village. This combination is especially useful for an independently planned trip: you can decide in advance whether to focus on a festival date, historic village views or connections to landscape and cycling routes.

Summer Festival Culture

Between 5 and 21 July 2019, Badesse hosted the 37th Festa del Pesce e dello Sport. The event is generally held in Badesse in July for three weeks, immediately after the Palio. If you want to plan your trip around cultural and local events, July is therefore the obvious travel period.

Former Mill and Historic Buildings

The architectural history of the area includes Podere Badesse e Molino, with a former mill that was already in existence in 1825 and has since been altered. The mill is a two- to three-storey stone building with a pitched roof and an attached structure; it is currently being renovated. The building is particularly appealing to visitors interested in rural architecture and historic village settings.

Religious and technical structures also add to the picture. The Cappella delle Trafisse is also known as San Rocco and is a historic memorial to the rural religious devotion of the Badesse community, built in the 18th century. The new parish church of San Bernardino da Siena in Badesse was consecrated on a Sunday, 13 May. Ponte Ottarchi is considered a monumental railway bridge. These themes therefore range from religious remembrance and ecclesiastical architecture to railway history.

Destinations and Mountains in the Surrounding Area

Castle of Monteriggioni, a castle, is located in the immediate vicinity of Badesse, while the Museo dell'Acqua, a museum, as well as Palazzo Spanocchi and Palazzo Tolomei, each a palace, are located in the surrounding area. Monte Maggio, Poggio Cavallari, Monte Vasone and Monte Calvarino are also located in the same area, all of them mountains. The four mountain names complement the cultural attractions with a clear connection to the landscape.

Route Connections and Practical Orientation

A cycling route following in the footsteps of Sigeric's journey from Canterbury to Rome passes through Uopini and then continues to Badesse. The railway station is located in Badesse, within the municipality of Monteriggioni. Services, equipped public green spaces and parking facilities are located along the provincial road. The road crosses the village and separates the residential area from the industrial area. When choosing accommodation in Badesse, you can therefore weigh up whether the services and parking facilities on the provincial road, the historic architectural heritage, the surrounding mountains or the cycling route should be the deciding factor for your stay. In making your decision, you can assign different priorities to cultural interests, connections to the landscape, cycling routes and the festival period.

Further Places for Planning Your Trip

Further places for planning your trip include Mensano, Colombaio, Isola D'arbia, Piancastagnaio, Torri, Siena, Radda / Chianti and Anqua.

For the higher-level travel overview: Siena.