Wedged between Monviso and Mount Bracco, Paesana lies in the center of the Po Valley. Divided into two villages, spread over the two banks of the Po and named according to the two parishes of St. Mary and St. Margaret.

Definitely worth a visit are the two parish churches, the confraternity of St. Mary with frescoes by local painter Giovanni Borgna, in the hamlet of Ghisola, full of buildings with ancient rustic forms, Calcinere with its 19th-century church dedicated to St. Anthony Abbot and its splendid Renaissance portal, and finally Agliasco, a village set in a hollow from which a spectacular view of Monviso can be admired. Going up the Croesio valley, one then encounters the shrine of Our Lady of the East, a late 18th-century building dedicated to the Annunciation.

Finally, interesting prehistoric evidence is represented by a substantial group of rock engravings concentrated on Bric Lombatera, in the area of Pian Munè (1384 m).