 Painter Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo was born in this village.A burial slab, now enclosed in the parish church's walls, shows the Roman presence in the area in the 1st century BC, although the area was perhaps already inhabited by the Ligures.In the 10th century it is documented as "Vico Picolo" ("Small village") and received a Romanesque pieve and a "castrum", a fortified village whose walls, rebuilt in the 16th century, are still visible today.