On 2 July 1557, tradition says, the Madonna appeared to a peasant of Canevale, Giovanni Chichizola, on the path going down to Rapallo: from that came the sanctuary of Nostra Signora di Montallegro. On his birthplace a chapel was built in 1882.
In 1941, between Pian di Coreglia and Calvari, prisoner-of-war camp number fifty-two was built: it had room for four thousand people and fifteen thousand passed through it, mostly British and Commonwealth soldiers captured in Africa. After 8 September 1943 the camp was used for a few months by the Italian Social Republic: twenty-nine Jews passed through it, all deported to Auschwitz. The population is 274.
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Next up: Saint Nicholas of Bari, patron of a town mentioned as early as the 12th century, Sunday 6 December
Nearest airport: Genova, 34 km away
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📅 Every year, on 6 December
Coreglia Ligure celebrates Saint Nicholas of Bari on 6 December, in the church of San Nicolò, first mentioned in the 12th century; an old hospice in the town is documented even earlier, from 1034, as a dependency of the church of San Michele di Soglio.
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Outside Coreglia Ligure, but an easy day trip away.
