What to see · Sassello

Of Branca Doria's fortress, the round tower called “Saracena” still stands above Sassello.

Filippo Doria's castle of 1450 above Sassello: walls, undercrofts and houses grown inside it.

A reinforced-concrete cross 18.50 metres tall, with a chapel in its base and stairs inside.

Three naves, no frescoes, 40 metres of church and half of Genoese seventeenth-century painting.

Anthracotherium fossils and multimedia rooms: the Beigua Geopark visitor centre in Sassello.