The soft amaretti of Sassello are made with almond paste and armelline, that is what sits inside the apricot stone. The recipe dates from the nineteenth century, the village holds a fair for it every year, and the local museum has a section on the amaretti factories.
In 1290 the marquises of Ponzone sold the village to the Genoese Branca Doria, who proclaimed himself lord of Sassello without waiting for any investiture. The place lies between the Faiallo pass and the Giovo hill, inside the Beigua park, and in winter it really freezes: on the night of 6 February 2012 the thermometer read twenty-two degrees below zero. The population is 1,882.
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Next up: The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, in the town's first place of worship, Sunday 29 August
Nearest airport: Genova, 29 km away
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📅 Every year, on 29 August
Sassello celebrates the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist on 29 August; his church, erected in the 11th century, is the town's oldest place of worship and holds 16th-century paintings and Genoese-school sculptures.
Bastia Soprana Of Branca Doria's fortress, the round tower called “Saracena” still stands above Sassello. 
Bastia Sottana Filippo Doria's castle of 1450 above Sassello: walls, undercrofts and houses grown inside it. 
croce monumentale del monte Beigua A reinforced-concrete cross 18.50 metres tall, with a chapel in its base and stairs inside. 
basilica dell'Immacolata Concezione Three naves, no frescoes, 40 metres of church and half of Genoese seventeenth-century painting. 
Palazzo Gervino Anthracotherium fossils and multimedia rooms: the Beigua Geopark visitor centre in Sassello. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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