For lovers of local history and culture, Valle Trompia offers a journey full of discoveries, starting with the traditional Iron and Mine Route, passing through the archaeological museums, the historic villas and palazzos, as well as the Paul VI collection of contemporary art and the Sacred Route, without forgetting the farming and peasant tradition. A territory with a thousand faces, all to be discovered and explored.
The parish church dedicated to Saints Nazario and Celso was completed in 1785. It was built in place of the previous church dating back to medieval times but swept away by the flood of 1757. Described "as one of the most beautiful churches in Valle Trompia due to its architectural harmony and wealth of art", the parish church of Saints ...
In the heart of the Premiano district stands the small church dedicated to the Madonna Della Neve (Our Lady of the Snows). The sober exterior is characterised by the simple flat façade where four slender pilasters intersect with two stringcourses with a rectangular cross-section to form six compartments. On the architrave of the portal in Botticino stone is the date ...
The parish church of saints Filippo and Giacomo was built from 1899 onwards on a design by architect Carlo Melchiotti (a prominent figure in the Brescian Catholic Party) on a building that was commissioned by the Confraternity of the Suffrage in 1523. The church preserves many works of art, starting with the ancient dark stone portal of the previous chapel. ...
The Paul VI collection of contemporary art was inaugurated in 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI and has been open to visitors since 2010. It is located in Concesio and is named after the pope who was born there, Giovanni Battista Montini (1897-1987), who became Pope in 1963. It is not a memorial to Paul VI, nor a gallery of sacred ...
Heading up the valley, just before the village of Tavernole sul Mella, on the left stands a remarkable building in the cemetery area of the village: it is the church of San Filastrio. The gabled roof and the slender stone bell tower reveal the typical features of interesting late medieval architecture that invite you to stop and take a look. ...
Eremo di San Bernardo (St Bernard's Hermitage) was erected on a rise that allows it to visually dominate the Lumezzane valley. It is a simple structure with a rustic character consisting of two sturdy wall sections that support the central round arch and the gabled roof in exposed wood. The simple entrance door of the church is framed by graffiti ...
The Hermitage of San Giorgio can be reached from Conche or Caino via the valley of Madonna delle Fontane. Most likely a chapel of Benedictine origin, perhaps even dating back to the 13th century, the building assumed its current form over time, passing from the Benedictine administration to the confraternity of the Humiliati religious order, the same rector of the ...
On a low rocky spur, at the edge of a meadow basin, stands the ancient Hermitage of Conche, also known as the Hermitage of Santa Maria della Misericordia. Founded by the hermit Costanzo, today the patron saint of Nave, in the 12th century the small coenobium experienced alternating moments of splendour and the donation of the structures to the town ...
This underground path of about 2.5 km allows safely exploring the mine on foot "in its natural state", as it was left when the mining activity was abandoned. The entire visit takes place on foot, equipped with helmet torches to illuminate the path and aims to uphold the memory of the work of the miners, to promote a great heritage ...
Formally recognised as a museum by the Lombardy Region in 2010, this site was created to contextualise the firearm sector in the lives of the people of Gardone. The exhibition presents both the historical evolution of weapons, represented by the most significant examples of firearms, sidearms and armour produced in Gardone between the 15th and 20th centuries; as well as ...
The "C. Giancola" Ethnographic Museum in Collio consists of a collection of about 1300 different types of objects that mostly belonged to Doctor Claudio Giancola, a native of Collio. Divided by type, visitors can admire objects from the peasant era such as wooden butter churns and moulds, wrought-iron sheep shearing scissors forged in one piece, valuable objects from wealthy and ...
Located in the hamlet of Invico, the Ethnographic Museum was founded in the early 1980s by a group of locals from Lodrino who wanted to protect the artefacts of the peasant and artisan culture of the past. In fact, in the past Lodrino was named as one of the lands donated with their servants to the Monastery of Santa Giulia ...
