Patron saint festival In 312 days
Feast of San Bartolomeo
📅 Every year, on 24 August
On 24 August Bruno, a municipality of 351 inhabitants in the province of Asti, celebrates its patron San Bartolomeo.
Old Bruno stands on the hill facing Mombaruzzo; the rest of its land drops into the plain of the Belbo. Of the Lombards only the water names are left: Gherlobbia would mean the sheepfold, Ghisone the property of one Wiso.
The marquesses Faà di Bruno are named after the village. The surname is said to come from fea, dialect for sheep, or Celtic-Gaulish fea, fairy: and the family arms do carry a monstrous fairy, with bat wings and a serpent's tail. Camilla Faà married the duke of Mantua in secret, was repudiated and shut in a Ferrara convent, and her memoir passes for the first prose autobiography by an Italian woman.
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Outside Bruno, but an easy day trip away.
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.