The name of Chiuduno comes from Gaulish times: Claudun, whose suffix –dun marked for the Celts a place near hills or mountains. The Romans made it Claudunum, and the village grew along the road from Bergamo to Brescia, below the Valcalepio hills. On the Via Francesca, by the oratory of Santi Cosma e Damiano, a milestone turned up, among the most important Roman inscriptions in the province. The name appears in documents only from 795, and a deed of 928 recalls a votive chapel to San Vito, now vanished.
On the hill above stood a fortress, episcopal at first, held by the Suardi from the fourteenth century; legends grew about how impregnable it was, and a tower and stretches of wall survive. That castle is also the town's coat of arms, never formally granted, under the chief of the Empire that declares its Ghibelline allegiance. Chiuduno gave three men to Garibaldi's Thousand in 1860, among them Giuseppe Tironi, the expedition's official trumpeter. Button factories and the Valcalepio vines came in the twentieth century.
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Next up: The Assumption of Mary, patron of the Lo Spirito del Pianeta festival, Sunday 15 August
Nearest airport: Bergamo Orio al Serio, 12 km away
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📅 Every year, on 15 August; late May brings the international indigenous festival Lo Spirito del Pianeta
Chiuduno celebrates the Assumption of Mary on 15 August, in the church dedicated to her. At the end of May, Lo Spirito del Pianeta is held, an international indigenous festival with conferences, music and dance.
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