The name of Tavernerio in all likelihood comes from a taberna, the inn where travellers stopped along the Roman road that ran from Bergamo to Como; some would instead trace it to the Celtic root Taw-, which is said to mean a place set high up. The comune in its present shape was born in 1928, when Ponzate and Solzago were absorbed into it, and the coat of arms says so openly: three stars for the three settlements, a bear for the animal whose prehistoric traces have been found in the Triangolo Lariano, a cornucopia for abundance.
The Cosia, the stream that crosses the village, has left the worst memory: in 1951 its flood killed sixteen people. In the upper part of the old centre stands the church of San Martino, built where the medieval castle once was; it holds a silver cross of 1592, engraved with the burin by Gasparo Mola, and on a low wall outside someone, at a time nobody can name, cut a series of boards for noughts and crosses.
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📅 Every year, on 11 November; the Sunday after Pentecost brings the Saint Fereolus feast
Tavernerio celebrates Saint Martin of Tours on 11 November, in the church dedicated to him. On the Sunday after Pentecost, the feast dedicated to Saint Fereolus is held, at the oratory of the same name.
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