The name, tradition says, comes from a man: one Lasco, whom they called here the Count of Marmoro, a bandit who took the side of the weak and who is said to have lived in the farmsteads of Marmoro, below the Pizzi. The village has not forgotten him: in 2007 the streets of the old centre were covered with frescoes telling his story, and since then the inhabitants call it the frescoed village. In the church of Sant'Antonio Abate, which is fifteenth-century, there are real frescoes of that period instead.
The coat of arms too, granted in 1934, reads like a map: there is the mountain, grassy below and rocky at the top, which is the Pizzi di Parlasco; a green band crossing it, standing for the old road that climbed from Bellano into the Valsassina through the village; and a silver wave at the base, which is the Pioverna torrent. Above there is a purple band, and that one alone tells nothing about the place: it is the piece left over from the Fascist chief, after the lictor's fasces was taken out of it.
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