In the mid sixteenth century a bandit ruled these parts, Vincenzo Zenoglio known as il Crovo. He attacked Chiavari and the local lords, and once he even attacked the grand duke of Tuscany Cosimo I de' Medici, who was travelling towards Genoa: they laid an ambush for him, arrested him and in 1543 sentenced him to death. He lived at the Castello Rocca, at Borgonovo.
On 22 January 2009, by contrast, a baby girl was born at Cafferata. It made the news because in that hilltop hamlet no one had been born since 27 December 1941: sixty-seven years and twenty-six days. The municipality is a scattered one, the town hall is at Prati, and part of the territory lies inside the Aveto park. The population is 1,624.
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Next up: Saint Roch, patron of a municipality with five hamlets and as many parish churches, Monday 16 August
Nearest airport: Genova, 43 km away
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📅 Every year, on 16 August
Mezzanego celebrates Saint Roch on 16 August, in the oratory dedicated to him in the hamlet of Prati, which houses a 17th-century painting of the Madonna with saints Anthony and Roch donated by the Gandolfo family.
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