Patron saint festival In 253 days
Saint John the Baptist, patron of Almè
📅 Every year, on 24 June
Almè celebrates Saint John the Baptist on 24 June, in the church dedicated to him.
Almè stands at the mouth of the Val Brembana, on the left bank of the Brembo, and its name is what is left of a longer expression: the area was called Lemine, then Lemen in Plano, and by shortening that Almè was drawn out of it. The village began as a military post on the Roman road that ran from Bergamo to Lecco, and it started to matter when the ponte della Regina was built, the bridge that crossed the river towards the plain of Almenno. In 1493 that bridge collapsed, the road lost its importance, and the village declined along with it.
Almè has had to take back its independence more than once: joined and rejoined to neighbouring Villa d'Almè, the last time in 1927, it found a comune of its own again only in 1948. The two churches, too, divide the work between them in a curious way. The new parish church, of 1956, has no bell tower, and so the bells go on ringing from the old one, by now deconsecrated, where paintings by Carlo Ceresa and Palma the Elder have remained.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Almè, but an easy day trip away.
Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.