Monastero di Vasco keeps its town hall at Roapiana, and the houses scatter into hamlets: Malborgo, Pianborgo, Gandolfi. The name comes from the Benedictine cell founded shortly before the year one thousand, which in 1180 became a priory; of the convent two gates remain, one for carts, one on foot.
Until 1699 it lay in the district of Mondovì, then broke away at the end of the Salt Wars, having taken an active part and suffered the worst destruction, many inhabitants deported to the Vercellese. At Roapiana the eighteenth-century parish church of Saints Peter and Paul is bare brick, a rose window high on the front. Moncervetto marble comes from here too.
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