A short walk outside the village leads to the remains of the Benedictine abbey of Fornelli, founded in 1179. The community was small but its lands once stretched across much of the upper Bormida valley. Suppressed in the 18th century and converted to a farmhouse, the building still preserves Romanesque masonry in its lower courses and the bones of the original cloister layout.
The abbey is now a private residence and not open to the public, but you can walk around the exterior and see the older stonework where it pokes through the later additions. Worth a half-hour detour for anyone interested in how medieval monastic settlements survive — or fail to — into the 21st century.