Clusone sits on a glacial plateau in the upper Val Seriana, and historians have never agreed on its name: the leading view starts from Clausonium in medieval documents, from the Latin clausus, a place closed in by mountains. People from the old town call themselves baradèlli rather than clusonesi, and the nickname is said to come from Castel Baradello near Como, where Napoleone della Torre, lord of Bergamo and of the valley, died shut in a wooden cage.
On the town hall tower Pietro Fanzago installed in 1583 a planetary clock marking the sun, the moon and the equinoxes, wound by hand every day for four hundred years; Fanzago also repaired the clock in Venice's Piazza San Marco. On the facade of the Oratorio dei Disciplini, facing the basilica, Giacomo Borlone de Buschis painted around 1485 a Triumph of Death and a Dance of Death.
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Next up: Saint John the Baptist, co-patron of the Clusone Jazz Festival, Thursday 24 June
Nearest airport: Bergamo Orio al Serio, 30 km away
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📅 Every year, on 24 June; the Clusone Jazz Festival follows between June and July
Clusone celebrates the co-patron Saint John the Baptist on 24 June; the patron, Our Lady of the Assumption, is celebrated on 15 August. Between June and July the Clusone Jazz Festival is held.
📅 Every year, on 15 August
Clusone celebrates Our Lady of the Assumption on 15 August, in the basilica dedicated to her; the co-patron, Saint John the Baptist, is celebrated on 24 June.
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