Patron saint festival In 329 days
Feast of Santa Maria
📅 Every year, on 8 September
On 8 September Grone, a municipality of 913 inhabitants in the province of Bergamo, celebrates its patroness Santa Maria.
Grone has 913 inhabitants in the Val Cavallina, on the left bank of the Cherio, and its territory climbs from the river up to the hills of San Fermo. From the Middle Ages, when the Suardi were in command here, three towers remain, which are also on the coat of arms; and in 1928, digging to rebuild the parish church, the remains of a fortified building came to light, probably a castle about which nothing more was known. Inside the church there are paintings by Cavagna and carved woodwork.
On the edge of the village the mill of the Acqua Sparsa is still working: it is the last mill in the whole valley, it has a wooden structure of 1930 and it grinds by putting together the force of the water and the electric one. There was also a period when Grone did not exist: from 1928 to 1947 it was merged with the neighbouring Borgo di Terzo, Berzo San Fermo and Vigano San Martino into a single comune called Borgounito, dissolved later under the Republic.
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chiesa di San Donato 📍 Massimino · 9.3 km The parish church of San Donato in the hamlet of San Vincenzo, baroque, built between 1818 and 1820. monastero di Santo Stefano 📍 Millesimo · 14 km Baroque church and fifteenth-century cloister, Cistercian until 1802, now inside a private castle. castello di Millesimo 📍 Millesimo · 15 km Dismantled in 1553 so the French could not take it, the thirteenth-century keep is open again. Castello di Cairo Montenotte 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km The ruins of the Del Carretto castle above Cairo Montenotte, in the upper Bormida valley. Ferrania Film Museum 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km Six themed rooms in Palazzo Scarampi for the plant that made Ferrania a name in world cinema. castello di Dego 📍 Dego · 24 km Ruins at Cua, above the Val Bormida, and a Napoleonic path that climbs up to them.