Patron saint festival In 313 days
Feast of San Bartolomeo
📅 Every year, on 24 August
On 24 August Branzi, a municipality of 732 inhabitants in the province of Bergamo, celebrates its patron San Bartolomeo.
The name is a tool: it comes from the dialect branz, the tooth of the fork used to gather hay. The Romans came up here for the copper, mined in the village as in the neighbouring ones; later iron was added, and the piodere, the slate slabs used to roof the houses. The first stable settlements are traced to the age of the barbarian invasions, when those who suffered the raids went looking for remote places.
In the Middle Ages Branzi did not exist on its own: with Carona and Fondra it made up the comune of Valfondra Inferiore, and it was the division of 1595 that produced the three villages. Under Venice the place belonged to the district of Valle Brembana Oltre la Goggia, with its head at Valnegra, which enjoyed tax relief and privileges; later the Austrian duties sank the valley's trade. Today the name of the village is on a cheese: Branzi, made with alpine pasture milk, which is also what goes into polenta taragna. Around it, among the mountains, lie eleven alpine lakes.
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Bagni di Cefalà Diana 📍 Cefalà Diana · 8.4 km The only Islamic bathhouse still standing in Sicily: four sunken pools and a worn Kufic band Monte Porcara 📍 Bagheria · 16 km 388-metre mountain above Bagheria: walls and necropolis of a Hellenised indigenous settlement, perhaps ancient Paropo. Castello di Misilmeri 📍 Misilmeri · 17 km An Arab-Norman fortress built by Emir Jafar II between 998 and 1019 overlooking the Eleuterio River valley. Villa Valguarnera 📍 Bagheria · 18 km Eighteenth-century villa in Bagheria begun in 1712: key-shaped plan, frescoed salons and the Montagnola hill. Villa Palagonia 📍 Bagheria · 19 km Bagheria's villa of the monsters, which unsettled Goethe and entered Faust. Torre Amalfitano 📍 Bagheria · 17 km Farm tower in Bagheria, probably thirteenth-century, rebuilt in 1546: water cistern, warehouse and crenellated terrace.