 The town is located in the Riviera di Ponente, east of the plain of Albenga, on the slopes of Mount Croce, at an elevation of .The village, an territorial dominion of the bishop of Albenga since the early Middle Ages, was acquired in the 14th century by the Republic of Genoa.In that period the nearby village of "Capriolo" was abandoned, according to local sources, as a result of an invasion of ants.