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Feast of San Grato di Aosta
📅 Every year, on 7 September
On 7 September Penango, a municipality of 516 inhabitants in the province of Asti, celebrates its patron San Grato di Aosta.
The name ends in -ngo like many Lombard place names, and the small necropolises found here are cited in support; others trace it to the Cimbri, scattered over the Monferrato hills after the defeat at Vercelli. Penango enters the records in 961, when Aleramo gave the monastery of Grazzano two farmsteads «in loco et fundo Penengi».
The village depended on Moncalvo until 1704, when duke Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, short of war funds, sold the cantons of Penango, Cioccaro and Patro in fief: from that sale came a separate community. In 1908 Santa Maria and Patro passed to Moncalvo. San Grato, the eighteenth-century parish church, is of bare brick, with two clock faces on its tower.
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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.