Tovo (derived from “tufum,” owing to the presence of an overhanging tufa rock in the Bronati district) is an agricultural center in the Mortella valley, originally a possession of the bishops of Albenga and, in the twelfth century, the Del Carretto, marquises of Savona and Finale. It passed to Spain in 1598 and to the republic of Genoa in 1713. The ruins of the feudal castle stand on the hill of Folchi and the town still has some suggestive medieval parts. The parish church of San Giovanni Battista at Bardino Vecchio has an ancient and massive Gothic campanile with two rows of two-light windows. The church of San Sebastiano at Bardino Nuovo is baroque, as is the parish church of San Giacomo at Tovo, built in the sixteenth century and painted the following century, which houses canvases by Brilla and Graffigna. It is possible to visit a collection of antique clocks and watches at Bardino Nuovo. The whole area is famous for its intense cultivation of peaches.