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What to see and do in Vilobí d'Onyar

What to see and do in Vilobí d'Onyar (Selva, Girona): 3 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 1 Historical milestones

How far each place is from the centre of Vilobí d'Onyar

Hermitage of Santa Margarida 1.8 km

Towns near Vilobí d'Onyar

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What to see and do in Vilobí d'Onyar

Vilobí d'Onyar
Village
Vilobí d'Onyar is a municipality of the Selva comarca, in Girona, home to Girona-Costa Brava Airport, which besides the town of the same name includes the districts of Salitja and Sant Dalmai. It has 3,297 inhabitants and lives on irrigated and dryland farming, cattle and pig farming, poultry farming and the agri-food industry; it lies close to the AP-7 motorway, the N-II road and the Eix Transversal. In the mid-19th century it had barely 338 inhabitants, and until the 1916 reform it was simply called Viloví. It preserves a parish church with a late Gothic altarpiece, and in Salitja is the sanctuary of les Fonts. It holds several sardana gatherings (aplecs) throughout the year.
Hermitage of Santa Margarida
Monument
The hermitage of Santa Margarida is a chapel of Romanesque tradition, from the late 12th or early 13th century, situated on the outskirts of Vilobí d'Onyar; it is first mentioned in 1094 and has been documented since 1290. It has a single nave of rectangular plan with no differentiated apse; the west facade was rebuilt in the 17th century, with a voussoired portal flanked by two windows with the date 1665 carved on the lintels. The 14th-century Gothic altarpiece it housed was moved to the parish church and lost in 1936. The pilgrimages held throughout the year were suspended by the bishop of Girona in 1758, and worship was restored in 1947. Every 20 July, the feast of Saint Margaret, an aplec is held with mass, rosary, procession and sardanas.
The inauguration of Girona-Costa Brava airport
Historical milestone
The aerodrome built within the boundaries of Salitja opened to civil traffic in 1967 to provide an outlet for Costa Brava tourism; summer charter flights first and low-cost airlines later made it grow.