Magasa is the least populated comune in the province of Brescia and the one with the highest average age: minors make up about one per cent of the inhabitants, the lowest share in Italy. It stands at a thousand metres in the Val Vestino, between Lake Garda and Lake Idro, and until 1934 it was not even Lombard: it belonged to Trentino, and in that year it was detached and made a hamlet of Turano. Municipal independence, which it had already held at the end of the sixteenth century, came back to it only in 1947.
Above the village opens the upland of Cima Rest, with its straw-roofed haylofts and a sky so clear that the amateur astronomers of Salò have set a public observatory there. In the village a custom fixed by will in 1588 is still alive: on the day of the patronal feast every person attending the service is given a piece of bread and a fifth of wine. The church now belongs to the comune, which has taken on the moral duty of going on honouring that benefactor's wish.
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