Patron saint festival In 240 days
Feast of Saint Anthony of Padua
📅 Every year, on 13 June
On 13 June Peia, a municipality of 1,864 inhabitants in the province of Bergamo, celebrates its patron Saint Anthony of Padua.
The name of Peia comes from a hat. The Romans sent those condemned to forced labour into the iron mines of the nearby val del Riso; after eleven years of slavery, or once the sentence was served, they were freed and could take a piece of land to cultivate and defend. At the ceremony of liberation they wore the pileus, the cap: for this they were called pileati, and the village where they had settled came to be known as Pilia, the place of the pileati.
The village today is a list of surnames. There are fourteen contrade — Peia Bassa, Ca' Basi, Ca' Bertocchi, Ca' Bettera, Ca' Biadoni, Ca' Bosio, Ca' Brignoli, Ca' Fragia, Ca' Marino, Ca' Orazio, Ca' Predali, Ca' Rottigni, Ca' Zenucchi and Cima Peia — and each bears the name of the family that lived in it, because in the Bergamo dialect Cà means house. The building of the last decades has largely welded them into one another, but the names have stayed.
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Città Alta and the Venetian Walls 📍 Bergamo · 18 km A 6,200-meter wall built by Venice in the 16th century, this UNESCO World Heritage site encloses Bergamo Alta. Accademia Carrara 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The count founded the gallery and the school together, so pupils could copy from life. Teatro Gaetano Donizetti 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The theatre born where wooden huts once stood, now Donizetti's home. basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore 📍 Bergamo · 18 km The church without a façade in Bergamo's upper town: Campione's lions and the intarsias designed by Lotto. chiesa dei Santi Bartolomeo e Stefano 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The lower Bergamo church with the Martinengo altarpiece, Lotto's largest. chiesa di Santo Spirito 📍 Bergamo · 17 km Bergamo church called «of the Tasso», with Lorenzo Lotto's 1521 altarpiece and the via Pignolo chapels.