In 1923, digging for the Genova-Casella railway near the hamlet of Niusci, more than four hundred silver coins came to light, struck by Ligurian mints between the fourth and the first century BC. They had ended up there along the salt road.
That road went from Genoa to the Val Scrivia over the Crocetta d'Orero pass, which at 465 metres is the lowest of all the Apennine passes, and the Romans already used it. Serra Riccò is a scattered comune: the two old pievi of Serra and San Cipriano had, in Napoleonic times, given rise to two separate comuni. There are 7,931 residents.
Cappella di San Michele di Castrofino · Chiesa di San Lorenzo
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Next up: Saint Roch, the patron whose sanctuary was raised in thanks against the Black Death, Sunday 1 August
Nearest airport: Genova, 13 km away
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📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August (liturgical date 16 August)
Serra Riccò celebrates Saint Roch on the first Sunday of August; the sanctuary dedicated to him in the hamlet of Pedemonte was raised in the 16th century in thanks for having protected the population from the terrible Black Death epidemic.
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Outside Serra Riccò, but an easy day trip away.
