The name is made of two pieces. The village was called Crux, cross, because it was the crossroads of the caravans that climbed from the coast towards the Po plain along the salt road; in 1733 the surname of the Fieschi, lords of the place since 1253, was added, and in 1750 the name became the one it has today.
In 1901 the hamlets of the Vobbia valley were detached to make a new municipality, and Crocefieschi went from four thousand inhabitants to about a thousand. In September 1944 a German detachment sent to hunt for partisans ordered every house to post the list of who lived in it and to leave its doors open for checks. The population is 561.
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Next up: The Immaculate Conception, patron of a town whose name joins a cross and a family of popes, Tuesday 8 December
Nearest airport: Genova, 24 km away
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📅 Every year, on 8 December
Crocefieschi celebrates the Immaculate Conception on 8 December; the town's name, assigned in 1750, joins «Croce» (cross) with the surname of the Fieschi, lords of the place from 1253 until 1797, when Napoleon abolished imperial fiefs.
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