Ceriana

At Easter, four choirs of local men sing ancient Latin chants through the lanes and the main church, the high point of Ceriana's Holy Week processions. The village faces east over the Armea valley in the hills behind Sanremo, so in winter the sun leaves it at midday. Its defenders once held off Saracen raiders by pouring boiling oil through trapdoors in the walls.

Highlights

• Holy Week processions with choirs singing Latin chants
• The August festival of Ceriana's own sausage, the sousissa serianasca
• The old and new churches of Santi Pietro e Paolo
• Local extra-virgin olive oil
• The plaque to Nobel chemist Giulio Natta on Via della Visitazione

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