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Our Lady of Solca and the Chestnut Museum
📅 Every year, on 21 August
Pescaglia celebrates Our Lady of Solca on 21 August.
The name can mean two things, the pastures or the fishing, and the coat of arms has chosen: there is a trout on it. The older one, kept in the archive, said more: a vase with a chestnut tree above it, the trout on the band, and the names of the hamlets written along the branches. The chestnut later vanished and the fish stayed; but at Colognora there is a museum of the chestnut.
At Vetriano, in 1890, a hay barn given by the engineer Virgilio Biagini was turned into a theatre: seventy-one square metres in all and eighty-five seats between stalls and boxes. In 1997 Guinness recorded it as the smallest historic public theatre in the world, and in 2003 its restoration was given a prize alongside that of the Fenice in Venice.
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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.