Of a whole abbey one stone is left. Legend has it that in the eighth century a Lombard king had the abbey of San Salvatore built here and gave it to the monks of Bobbio; towards the middle of the tenth century the Saracens destroyed it. Today all that survives of it is a bas-relief walled into the balustrade of the parish church: a pelican.
After that destruction the marquis Anselmo, son of Aleramo, raised the abbey of San Quintino at Spigno to protect the pilgrims on the road between Savona and Acqui. Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries many left Giusvalla for South America, and above all for Montevideo. The population is 460.
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📅 Every year, on 21 September
On 21 September Giusvalla celebrates Saint Matthew; on the first Sunday of September the village also celebrates the Madonna del Deserto, whose 19th-century wooden statue is kept in a chapel within its territory.
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Outside Giusvalla, but an easy day trip away.
