Cereglio

Until the 1950s, the hamlet Cereglio was a grouping of houses and stables a few hundred meters apart.

Within the village is the church dedicated to San Biagio, restored after World War II, which preserves a painting of the Madonna attributed to the painter Alessandro Tiarini.

The place name Cereglio may be of Roman origin, while another hypothesis is that it derives from Ceres, a Latin goddess, and Helios (sun in Greek) with particular reference to the fertility of the soil and the village's happy exposure. Indeed, the famous chronicles of Abbot Serafino Calindri note a low rate of "morbidity," the frequency with which a given disease occurs in the population, probably due to the use of the now famous "Cerelia Water", the source of which is located in Pradavena, a small valley at 755 m. In the 1940s the bottling of Cerelia Water began.