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.
Come and discover the "I Magli" Museum (Forgers’ Museum) of Sarezzo! The 16th-century forge in Sarezzo comprises a fascinating museum and Ecomuseum itinerary aimed at discovering the centuries-old traditions of Valle Trompia linked to the processes of extracting, casting and producing iron. In the 18th century, the forge appeared in the list of the Bailo family's possessions and was indicated ...
The foundry in Tavernole sul Mella is a 15th-century production structure whose name once identified both the tower, where the mineral was transformed and the building with all the annexed structures. The foundry entered the production circuit in the second half of the nineteenth century. It was later transformed into a sawmill and remained so until the 1950s, when it ...
The Pezzaze Mining Museum includes the Marzoli Mine and the "Il Mondo dei Minatori e l'Arte del Ferro" museum. Open to the public since 1999, the Marzoli Mine today represents a place of collective memory: entering it is equivalent to crossing the threshold of an environment where all the senses are ready to grasp every slightest variation. The first opportunity ...
The architectural complex called Antico Broletto, in the hamlet of Mondaro houses the ORMA Museum: the only archaeological museum in Valle Trompia. The three-story museum space is divided into historical periods. The archaeological materials on display come from the "Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio" of Brescia and Bergamo and from the Civic Museums of Brescia. Neolithic Starting from the ...
Valuable works are kept inside the Oratory of San Rocco in Ombriano, erected after the plague that raged here in 1576. Inside the church it is possible to admire a Madonna and Child, San Rocco and San Zaccaria in a beautiful and sumptuous soasa from the early 17th century. A polychrome wooden crucifix from the 16th century can also be ...
Palazzo Avogadro is a historical-artistic institution in the municipality of Sarezzo. Unfortunately, the current structure results from numerous extensions that have partially distorted the original Medieval structure. It is made up of two buildings: the north one, older, includes the tower house and preserves the medieval structure: while the south one, newer, was compromised by renovations dating back to the ...
Little or nothing is known about the construction of Palazzo Chinelli-Rampinelli nor has the name of its architect been passed down to us. As already mentioned, it seems certain that the building was constructed between the end of the 17th century and the first quarter of the 18th century. We also know from a map dated 30 July 1843 that ...
Palazzo Rota stands on the road that goes from Bovezzo to Cortine di Nave and is one of the few inhabited historic buildings in the province of Brescia, with descendants of the noble Rota family still living there. This neoclassical construction was built at the end of the 18th century on a design by Vincenzo Berenzi, who reused the stones ...
Having undergone extensive renovations over the centuries, the building stands on the site once occupied at the end of the fifteenth century by a chapel dedicated to St Mark. The chapel, with the addition of a bell tower, was entirely rebuilt by the Municipality in 1534. Reconstructed as a fundamentis, it was consecrated again in 1606, but the altars were ...
The plebeian complex of the Pieve della Mitria stands on the left bank of the Garza river, at the mouth of the "Valle delle Cartiere." There are two hypotheses regarding the name of the place handed down by popular tradition: the first traces it back (alluding to the bishop's typical headgear) to a 19th-century sign of a local tavern or ...
At Lumezzane's Planetarium and Museum of the Constellations, it is possible to study and discover the most beautiful stars and constellations under a large dome of 6 metres in diameter designed by our ancestors. Visitors can relax in the half-light and be lulled by engaging explanations and recited readings. This experience is made possible by the commitment of the Unione ...
The Santella Della Pentera takes the form of an aedicule with a small stone porch, inside of which are three painted panels depicting St Onofrio, the Virgin Mary and St Fermo. The locality where it stands has nothing to do with the exotic animal (i.e. panther). In the land survey of 1641, it is named Pintera, a dialect version of ...
