On the via Postumia, from the thirteenth century, there was a caravanserai: the «Cà de Rossi», at San Martino di Paravanico, where those who carried goods between the port of Genoa and the markets of Ovada and Piedmont stopped.
Not far off there was also a prison, the Gaiazza, and the name says so: it comes from the dialect galeassa, galley. The comune, on the other hand, was born in 1798: before that every frazione, with its parish, was a small comune of its own under the constitution of the Republic of Genoa, and the new municipality was cut along the boundaries of the old pieve. There are 4,006 residents.
Chiesa di San Bartolomeo · Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta · santuario di Nostra Signora della Guardia and 1 more
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Next up: Our Lady of the Guard and the three popes, Sunday 29 August
Nearest airport: Genova, 11 km away
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📅 Every year, on 29 August
On 29 August Ceranesi celebrates Our Lady of the Guard, on the summit of Monte Figogna: in just over twenty years her sanctuary has hosted three popes.
Chiesa di San Bartolomeo Livellato's parish church, with altars carrying the date of their saint. 
Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta Ceranesi's parish church, turned back to front in the late sixteenth century. 
santuario di Nostra Signora della Guardia Liguria's main Marian shrine, on the 804-metre summit of Monte Figogna above Genoa. 
chiesa del Santissimo Nome di Gesù The Christ Child statue that belonged to Francesca Teresa Rossi, and a 2004 organ, in the hamlet of Geo. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
