Paesino dell'entroterra di Sanremo (Liguria, riviera di ponente), Ceriana è situato in provincia Imperia at the center of Valle arms. It seems that its foundation dates back to Roman times, first as a "villa" of the family Celii (from which he then Coeliana Ceriana), after which the villa and the small adjacent Vicus became Oppidum and surrounded by fortified walls. Then came the Lombards, who expanded the subject tack between ninth and tenth centuries of repeated attacks by the Saracens. Dall 'XI century it was part of the possessions of Genoa. Country dall'intatto medieval charm pleasant surprises in evocative glimpses of the past and some of its historic churches. Here are: Church of S. Peter and Paul (XIII century but with an altarpiece of the eleventh century), Church of St. Andrew the Apostle (the fourth, was built over the ruins of a pagan temple, probably dedicated to Apollo, which remains the sandstone columns that divide the aisles), the church of S. Savior (also on the twelfth century pagan temple), Oratory of the Visitation (of the fifteenth century, but on Roman walls), Church of the (XII but on Roman pagan temple).
photos relate to the small village. 
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