Built in the 18th century, it was the villa of the Passari family, Marquesses of Montegiorgio. The name “Villa Ganucci” comes from Lionello Ganucci Cancellieri who married Caterina, daughter of Andrea Passari, and inherited the villa together with the adjacent estate.
In 1917, he started renovation works to the villa, giving it its current appearance. The name Fontebella, instead, was given to the area, and to the villa as well, for the presence of a spring.
Two pillars and a large gate give access to a long tree-lined avenue (480 evergreen oaks arranged in four rows), at the end of which is a garden with a circular fountain in the middle and the villa with a rectangular plan and four round towers at the corners.
A two-flight staircase in the middle of the façade leads to the entrance to the main floor. The Church of San Francesco, on the east, is a small building with a single nave with a blue ceiling dotted with golden stars. The garden contains two trees of extraordinary size: a 32-metre Lebanon cedar and a 20-metre Platanus. In 2017 Gruppo Speleo of the CAI of Fermo explored the Roman cistern and the underground aqueduct of Villa Fontebella. They discovered water that flows in the tunnel and reaches the fountain and the cistern.
