Fiorano al Serio measures one hundred and eight hectares, little more than a square kilometre: it is the smallest municipality in Lombardy, which has more than one thousand five hundred of them, and the third smallest in Italy. Into that space fit three thousand and seventy-one inhabitants and three alluvial terraces, one above the other, which are the staircase carved by the river Serio: at the top the plateau of San Fermo, cut about two million years ago; in the middle the plain where the old centre formed; at the bottom the terrace called, precisely, Prato Nuovo, where the industrial zone now stands.
From the southern end of the village starts the road that crosses a medieval bridge of the twelfth century, spans the Serio, enters the territory of Casnigo and leads into the Val Gandino. The valley floor, however, no longer has visible boundaries: the building of the second half of the twentieth century has welded Fiorano to the neighbouring villages in what is by now called a long city, running from Bergamo as far as Colzate. The name is said to come from the Latin Florianum, from Florius, one of the first owners of these lands.
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📅 Every year, on 23 April, with the vigil rite on 22 April
Fiorano al Serio celebrates Saint George, protector of the parish, on 23 April. On the evening of 22 April, a traditional rite is held on the churchyard of the church dedicated to him.
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Outside Fiorano al Serio, but an easy day trip away.
