In the summer of 1624, the story goes, Antoon Van Dyck painted a Holy Family on rough canvas and gave it to the country church of Sant'Anna; today the picture is in the parish church of Moltedo, and recent scholarship attributes it to Jan Roos, who was Van Dyck's collaborator. Both of them were in Liguria in those years.
The bell tower of the parish church, raised between 1804 and 1806 by the Swiss master mason Ignazio Monti, is at forty-nine metres the tallest in the valley. And there is a symmetry: in 1928 Vasia took Prelà Castello, that is, the castle that gives the neighbouring municipality its name. The population is 424.
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Next up: Saint Anthony the Abbot, patron of a church that received a painting from Van Dyck, Sunday 17 January
Nearest airport: Genova, 88 km away
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📅 Every year, on 17 January
Vasia celebrates Saint Anthony the Abbot on 17 January, in the church with the tallest bell tower in the valley; in the summer of 1624 Anthony van Dyck painted the Holy Family for this church and donated it, a work now attributed to his collaborator Jan Roos.
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Outside Vasia, but an easy day trip away.
