The name comes from Lemine, of uncertain origin. In Roman times Lemine was a pagus crossed by the military road from Bergamo towards Como, and the key point of that road was the bridge over the Brembo, reckoned from the rubble at about 184 metres. It stood until 1493, when a flood took it. Local memory then took it from the Romans and gave it to the Lombards, calling it the Queen's Bridge and the queen Theodelinda, or Teutberga; ask for it that way and the few remains will be pointed out.
Guelph and Ghibelline feuding split the community in two, Lemine Inferiore and Lemine Superiore, and ended in 1443 with the destruction of the former by order of the podestà of Bergamo: only the pieve and the church of San Giorgio were left standing. The last division was a notary's: in 1601 a deed separated Almenno San Salvatore from Almenno San Bartolomeo. In the Augustinian church the friars had the Antegnati of Brescia build an organ, one of very few Italian Renaissance instruments of certain attribution left in their original structure, returned to use by a scholarly restoration.
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📅 Every year, on 2 February
Almenno San Salvatore celebrates Our Lady of Candlemas on 2 February; the other patron, the Most Holy Saviour, is celebrated on 6 August.
📅 Every year, on 6 August
Almenno San Salvatore celebrates the Most Holy Saviour on 6 August; the other patron, the Madonna Candelora, is celebrated on 2 February.
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Outside Almenno San Salvatore, but an easy day trip away.
