Patron saint festival In 45 days
Feast of Saint Andrew
📅 Every year, on 30 November (Saint Andrew) and 13 December (Saint Lucy)
Pagnona celebrates Saint Andrew on 30 November; the other patron, Saint Lucy, is celebrated on 13 December.
Iron was worked here, and the men who worked it had come from the Valle di Scalve. When that trade fell into crisis in the second half of the seventeenth century, Pagnona and the whole Valvarrone emptied: people left above all for Venice. The parish church of Sant'Andrea, though, was adorned for centuries with the money the emigrants sent home.
The arms are a map: the tower on the height is the fortress that closed the entrance of the valley, behind it run the torrents Varrone and Varroncello, and the star is Monte Legnone standing over the village. In the village there are seventeenth-century houses with frescoes on their fronts, a fourteenth-century tower, and the chapel built for the plague dead of 1630.
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Places to see within 25 km
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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.