What to see · Toirano

Footprints 12,000 years old, a cemetery of cave bears and a column eight metres high.

A Benedictine abbey older than the year 1000, on the summit of Monte Varatella above Toirano.

In the stables of Palazzo D'Aste, eighteen sections on the trades and tools of the Val Varatella.

Consecrated in 1609, with Graffigna's frescoes on the vault and a 14th-century bell tower.

A church cut into the rock above Toirano, made a sanctuary by a bull of Leo X in 1519.