[3] Little is known of pre-historic and even medieval events before 1000 AD, although the area has certainly been visited - if not inhabited - by stone age humans, as evidenced by tools and weapons found locally.

A song, still popular today, was composed during the 1747 war as a reaction to the Austro-Piedmontese occupation, carried out by a horde of Croatian mercenaries.

In the Abbey and the abodes Of Croatians there were loads Down from the Marasca wall This disgrace would befall Also in vernacular, Abbot Gio Lorenzo Federico Gavotti composed Ei quattei stagiugni sascline ("The four seasons of Sassello").

[6] After the collapse of the ironworks and the annexation to the Kingdom of Sardinia, an impoverished population drew its subsistence from agriculture and forestry.

[7] The recent inclusion of part of its territory within the Regional Park of Mount Beigua opens new perspectives in this sense.