There was nobody here until the year 1000. Then came a Benedictine monastery, Santa Maria di Vesolla, where pilgrims heading for the port of Genoa on their way to Rome or the Holy Land would stop; and then the Del Bosco marquises put up a mansio, like the imperial posting stations.
Inside the mansio were armed men with three jobs: to garrison the place, to help travellers and to collect the toll. In 1183 the Del Bosco invested some vassals from Ovada with the fief of Castro Mansioni. At the end of the thirteenth century Genoa drove the Del Bosco out by force, and Masone became a fief of the Republic: the woods and the streams were wanted for ironworking. There are 3,758 residents.
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Next up: Our Lady of the Assumption and the diocese's oldest bell concert, Sunday 15 August
Nearest airport: Genova, 13 km away
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📅 Every year, on 15 August
Masone celebrates Our Lady of the Assumption on 15 August; its parish church, opened for worship in 1927, is the third largest in the diocese of Acqui and holds the diocese's first bell concert.
convento degli agostiniani Sixteenth-century monks' cells under barrel and sail vaults, period bread ovens, and an iron museum. 
Forte Geremia Camouflaged under a grassed earthwork at 806 metres, now a refuge in the Beigua park. 
chiesa di Cristo Re The 1660 bell nicknamed Din-Din and eleven bronzes: the largest church in the diocese of Acqui. 
cascata del Serpente A drop carved out of greenschist above Masone, with the ruins of the old cartiera Savoi. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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Outside Masone, but an easy day trip away.
