The first time Rocchetta appears in a document, in 1186, it is for a revolt: the inhabitants had risen against their lord, Enrichetto of the counts of Ventimiglia, who had to flee and shut himself up in his own castle.
In the oratory of the Santissima Annunziata there is a canvas of 1626 showing the apparition of the Madonna, and in the background the village in flames: it had been burned the year before in the war between Genoa and Savoy. The village stands where the rio Oggia joins the Barbaira, thirteen kilometres from the coast, with a medieval bridge over the stream. The population is 272.
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Next up: Saint Stephen Protomartyr, patron of a town with a battery from the Alpine Wall, Saturday 26 December
Nearest airport: Genova, 115 km away
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📅 Every year, on 26 December
Rocchetta Nervina celebrates Saint Stephen the Protomartyr on 26 December, in the 16th-century church dedicated to him, which holds a carved architrave from 1536; on the summit of Monte Abelliotto instead stands a 1931 battery, part of the Vallo Alpino del Littorio.
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