Patron saint festival In 283 days
Feast of San Giacomo apostolo
📅 Every year, on 25 July
On 25 July Gromo, a municipality of 1,239 inhabitants in the province of Bergamo, celebrates its patron San Giacomo apostolo.
In the Middle Ages they called it the little Toledo: at Gromo the forges beat iron into halberds, swords, shields and armour. Below, inside the mountain, there was silver: the mines are documented from 1026, and the ore taken here fed the mint of Bergamo until 1302.
In 1229 the podestà of Bergamo set down the Capitularia de metallis: it was forbidden to work the silver where it was dug, and the metal had to go down to the city to be struck into coin. The village name comes from the Latin grumus, meaning a rise: and indeed the centre stands on a spur of rock above the Serio.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Gromo, but an easy day trip away.
certosa di Parma 📍 Parma · 8.3 km The charterhouse of Stendhal's title, now a police school and rarely open. Parma Baptistery 📍 Parma · 11 km Benedetto Antelami’s pink marble masterpiece, a European landmark bridging Romanesque and Gothic design in Parma. arco di San Lazzaro 📍 Parma · 9.8 km Arch of San Lazzaro in Parma, built in 1628 on via Emilia Est, restored in 2005. chiesa di San Sepolcro 📍 Parma · 11 km The Holy Sepulchre canons' church on the via Emilia, with a coffered ceiling. abbazia di San Giovanni Evangelista 📍 Parma · 11 km Correggio's second dome in Parma, and the Benedictine pharmacy with its jars in rows. teatro Farnese 📍 Parma · 12 km The Farnese wooden theatre in the Pilotta, inaugurated with a naval battle in the stalls.