Tower clocks made at Tovo San Giacomo travelled a long way: the Bergallo family built them in their house-workshop between 1860 and 1980, and one of them ended up in 1934 at the Salesian mission of Puerto Santa Cruz, in Patagonia. Since 1997, in the old town hall at Bardino Nuovo, mechanisms, hands and dials have been kept in the tower clock museum.
At Bardino Vecchio, instead, stands the first and only monument in the world to the Cristezzanti, the men who carry the wooden crucifixes in processions. The village name comes from tuvu, tufa, after an overhang in the Bronati district; the three communities of Tovo, Bardino Vecchio and Bardino Nuovo were put back together in 1928. The population is 2,489.
Museo dell'orologio da torre Giovanni Battista Bergallo · santuario della Madonna delle Grazie · chiesa di San Giacomo Maggiore and 1 more
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📅 Every year, on 25 July
On 25 July Tovo San Giacomo celebrates Saint James the Greater with its procession; the town also keeps the tower-clock museum dedicated to the Bergallo family.
Museo dell'orologio da torre Giovanni Battista Bergallo Fifty hand-built tower clocks from the Bergallo workshop, in eleven rooms at Bardino Nuovo. 
santuario della Madonna delle Grazie In 1722, tradition says, a mute girl spoke again; the sanctuary of Bardino Vecchio followed. 
chiesa di San Giacomo Maggiore The village took its name from the patron saint of this parish church, beside the town hall. 
chiesa di San Giovanni Battista The fourteenth-century bell tower is the oldest part; the church beside it was rebuilt later. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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Outside Tovo San Giacomo, but an easy day trip away.
