The municipality was formed in 1927 from Tagliuno and Calepio with their hamlets, and the name lines up the two castles: the Marenzi counts' at Tagliuno and the counts of Calepio's, recorded with the village in a document of 911. The older name seems to come from the Greek kalón, fair or good, and èpion, read as land of good wine; the valley named after it now names the Valcalepio wine.
From the castle of Calepio, rebuilt in the fifteenth century, came Trussardo da Calepio, who in the war between Milan and Venice sided with the Republic and beat the Visconti troops: his house won the fief of the valley. A descendant, Ambrogio da Calepio, compiled in 1502 the first multilingual dictionary, called after him the calepino. The castle chapel holds the remains of Saint Celestine, given by Pope Clement X to Count Giovanni Paolo Calepio; at Tagliuno the town hall sits in the villa of the singer Ignazio Marini, whom Verdi wanted in many of his operas.
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📅 Every year, on the Monday eight days after Easter, in the hamlet of Tagliuno
In Castelli Calepio, the patronal feast varies from hamlet to hamlet. In Tagliuno, Our Lady of the Vineyards is celebrated on the Monday eight days after Easter, and Saints Peter and Paul on 29 June; in Calepio, instead, Saint Lawrence the Martyr is celebrated on 10 August.
📅 Every year, on 29 June, in the hamlet of Tagliuno
In Tagliuno, a hamlet of Castelli Calepio, Saints Peter and Paul are also celebrated on 29 June, alongside Our Lady of the Vineyards on the eighth day after Easter.
📅 Every year, on 10 August, in the hamlet of Calepio
In the hamlet of Calepio, which gives its name to the comune of Castelli Calepio together with Tagliuno, Saint Lawrence the Martyr is celebrated on 10 August, in the church dedicated to him.
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