In the church of Sant'Andrea the sandstone columns that divide the naves come from a pagan temple, probably of Apollo, over whose ruins the church was raised. When the Saracen pirates came up from the coast, between the ninth and tenth centuries, the people of Ceriana shut themselves inside the walls and poured boiling oil down through the trapdoors.
Gian Battista Embriaco was born here, who in 1867 invented the hydrochronometer: two of his water clocks still stand in Rome, on the Pincio and in the Villa Borghese gardens. And here, in Holy Week, four choirs of local men sing in Latin through the lanes. The population is 1,253.
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📅 Every year, on 29 June
Ceriana celebrates Saints Peter and Paul on 29 June, in the parish church dedicated to them, construction of which began in 1768, which preserves a 1526 polyptych depicting Saint Peter enthroned, the most valuable painting in the municipal territory.
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Outside Ceriana, but an easy day trip away.
