Near the little lake at Curagna, on the mule track to Vignolo, stands a hollow chestnut so wide that five men with their arms out cannot get round it: a painter christened it the lord of Nasino.
The village has 222 residents and its town hall in the hamlet of Costa, halfway up the Pennavaira valley below Monte Galero, 1708 metres. The caves along the stream have given up finds 9000 years old, now in Albenga; down on the valley floor there are Roman bridges and the ruins of the Del Carretto castle.
The patron is Saint John the Baptist and the feast falls on 24 June, the day of his Nativity; the parish church of the main village carries his name, dates from the sixteenth century and has baroque altars with twisted columns.
Nasino grows a bean that is found nowhere else, cultivated only here. And high up, at twelve hundred metres in the place called Dente Pamparin, stand the ruins of the stone houses where in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the Ferrua family, who had come from Pamparato in the Valcasotto, gave shelter and food to travellers and made charcoal for the people of the coast.
Monte Galero · santuario della Natività di Maria · chiesa di San Giovanni Battista
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Next up: Saint John the Baptist, patron of a contested castle, Thursday 24 June
Nearest airport: Genova, 72 km away
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📅 Every year, on 24 June
Nasino celebrates Saint John the Baptist on 24 June; its 16th-century church, with Baroque altars of twisted columns, is unique in the area, while the Cepollini castle was contested throughout the 14th century between the Clavesana and Del Carretto families.
Monte Galero A 3194-hectare protected site on the Tanaro-Centa watershed: woods, rock spires and ice-age plants. 
santuario della Natività di Maria An octagonal sanctuary at 335 metres, dedicated to the Nativity of Mary: on the altar, the Virgin as a baby in 
chiesa di San Giovanni Battista Nasino's sixteenth-century parish church: baroque altars with twisted columns embraced by angels. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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Outside Nasino, but an easy day trip away.
