The name of Cologno is traced to a Colonius who owned and lived on these lands, or else to colono, farmer, given the village's farming vocation; in 843 a deed mentions one Sthephanus de Colonias, the first time the place appears in writing. The arms go back to the age of the rural commune and echo the name: a silver column on red, topped by a golden antique crown.
The centre has kept its medieval layout, with the walls, the moat — about ten metres wide and originally far deeper than it looks — and four gateways facing the cardinal points, one of which now houses the town hall. Venice, which had ordered the walls to be fortified in earnest, kept a permanent guard of sixteen soldiers here; and when the townsmen asked to answer directly to Venice rather than to Bergamo, the Republic refused: Cologno was the only fortified place able to shield Bergamo from the south.
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📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of May; protector against lightning and storms since the 16th century
Cologno al Serio celebrates Saint Eurosia, co-patron of the town, on the first Sunday of May. Who lived in the 4th century, she is remembered as protector against lightning and storms and of the fruits of the earth; her cult was introduced in the 16th century.
📅 Every year, on 15 August
Cologno al Serio celebrates the Assumption of Mary on 15 August, in the church dedicated to her. In 1452, Francesco Sforza Visconti made his knight Sagramoro II Visconti castellan of the Rocca of Cologno al Serio.
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