The name, they say, comes from chickpeas: in dialect the village is Cexi, and before the olive took everything over the chickpea was the commonest crop in these parts.
At Arzeno d'Oneglia there is something you rarely see: the stone bell tower of the parish church is pierced by the lane, which passes underneath it to link piazza del Popolo with the church square. The village has seen worse: in 1801, after the Napoleonic battles, some five hundred marauders came down from the neighbouring valleys and put it to fire and sword. The population is 286.
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Next up: Saint Lucy, patron of a parish that replaced the old sanctuary of the Sorrowful Mother, Sunday 13 December
Nearest airport: Genova, 82 km away
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📅 Every year, on 13 December
Cesio celebrates Saint Lucy on 13 December, in the church preserving its 15th-century baptismal font; until 1585 the town's only parish had instead been the building that today has become the sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin of Sorrows.
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Outside Cesio, but an easy day trip away.
