In 1592 the Republic of Venice had the Via Priula built, which climbed from Bergamo to the pass of San Marco and dropped from there into the Valtellina, towards the Grisons: it ran right through here. Mezzoldo found itself on the trade road and put a customs house on it, whose building still stands in the middle of the village with the Venetian arms on its front. When Venice ended, the road lost its importance and shrank back to a path: the village fell off every route again, and from that began a depopulation that has never stopped.
The name is thought to mean half high, that is high up and in the middle of the mountains. The coat of arms is a small census: three gold stars for the three clusters of the municipality, and each has six points, as many as the centre and its five hamlets; below, three bees, standing for industriousness. The village appears in documents from 1472 as Mezolo, and before that the high iron road came through, carrying ore into the Valsassina by very narrow paths. In the parish church there is a panel by Lattanzio da Rimini.
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