Ceriale’s a small village, right next to Camping Baciccia, which has paid hardly for the plunder of the Turks. They severely compromised it, destroying the rich heritage of art and culture, of which only a few very precious testimonies have survived prior to 1637.
In Piazza della Vittoria a military fortification is still visible. That is the great bastion dating back to 1564, and not far away you can also see the tower behind the church, which is a small witness of the ancient history of Ceriale.
Following the Saracen raid, next to the surviving bell tower, the new Parish of Ss Giovanni Battista and Eugenio was built, designed by the architect Brunengo, who wanted to equip the temple with a Bernini dome.
There you can admire a sixteenth-century crucifix and fifteenth and seventeenth-century altarpieces.
In the hinterland there are the oldest buildings, such as the small church in the hamlet of Peagna, which preserves fifteenth-century frescoes, and the baroque bell tower.
Don’t miss a visit is the village of Capriolo, abandoned in the Middle Ages, as well as the beautiful Church of St. George of Campochiesa, datable between the eighth and tenth centuries, which, although It’s in the territory of Albenga, is very close to Ceriale and just a few minutes far from our Camping Baciccia.
The Church of S. Giorgio has three naves and frescoes, among which the Universal Judgment is to be highlighted.
If you are on holiday in Ceriale, don’t miss the very interesting Paleontological Museum of Rio Torsero in Peagna, named after Silvio Lai.
The Palaeontological Museum of the Rio Torsero in Peagna was created to preserve the numerous finds discovered on the banks of the watercourse, especially shell fossils.
This area is in fact one of the most important in Italy due to the presence of macrofossils, which date back to about 7 million years ago.
The findings, concentrated about a kilometer from the beach, testify to the ancient presence of a "Caribbean" sea, given the similarity of fossils with other species found in warm seas.
The cerealist scientific researcher Agostino Sasso, professor of mineralogy and ichthyology at the University of Genoa, began cataloging in 1827 and now "Silvio Lai" preserves many of these fossils.
The Museum named after Silvio Lai has three rooms: one for conferences, a laboratory, where the work of researchers dealing with precision scales, ultraviolet lamps and microscope can be followed, and the museum with seven windows which preserve a hundred families represented by shells, cetacean fossils and crab footprints.
Among the rarities the "strombus coronatus", some "cones" and "cipree".
As you can see, a few minutes far from Camping Baciccia you will also find ... a sea of history.
Come to Ceriale and discover them right now!
