In 1449 marquis Galeotto I Del Carretto gave the parish of Calice a chased silver cup, to thank the village for the loyalty it had shown in the war against Genoa. A hundred years later, in 1558, it was from here that the revolt against the misrule of Alfonso II Del Carretto set out, and at its head was a peasant, Antonio Capellino.
The story goes that Capellino, on his wedding day, instead of handing his wife over to the marquis for the ius primae noctis, turned up with a hundred men and a she-ass. The revolt spread to the whole marquisate of Finale. The village lies inland, where the Carbuta flows into the Pora. The population is 1,683.
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Next up: Saint Nicholas, moved from 6 December to the first Sunday of May by a petition to the pope, Sunday 2 May
Nearest airport: Genova, 49 km away
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📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of May (solemn feast); on 6 December the liturgical feast
Calice Ligure celebrates Saint Nicholas on the first Sunday of May: until 1872 the feast fell on 6 December, but the people found it inconvenient given the autumn climate, until a petition to the Holy See secured, in 1872, the move to the present date.
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Outside Calice Ligure, but an easy day trip away.
