Whether you love outdoor winter sports or summer sports or enjoy a day relaxing in nature or savouring the local culinary specialities, whether you are passionate about the local history and culture or want to discover the mining tradition…Valle Trompia offers a world of unique experiences just waiting to be discovered.
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 ...
The Sanctuary of the Madonnina is familiarly so called because of the small eastern shrine facing the sanctuary where a beautiful 15th-century Maestà appears. Built between 1608 and 1620, it is part of a crucial moment in the architectural production of Pietro Maria Bagnatore, coinciding with the construction of the city sanctuary of San Maria del Lino. The interior of ...
The Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Stella, also known as “Madonna della Stella” is located in a dominant position between the municipalities of Concesio, Cellatica and Gussago. Construction works began on 2 June 1537 and lasted about two years. This place was very dear to the Montini family and in particular to the young Giovan Battista, who, having become a ...
The Sanctuary can be reached via a path that unravels from the piazza of the hamlet of Magno di Gardone Val Trompia. It has a simple façade divided into two registers by a deep, high cornice featuring central moulding. The main entrance door opens in the centre of the lower register and is accompanied by four pilasters with no architectural ...
The Sanctuary of San Lorenzo is a late 15th-century building built on a pre-existing medieval chapel. It houses a 15th-century votive fresco of the Madonna and Child, now incorporated into the 17th-century polyptych as an altarpiece, in a rich wooden picture frame. Other important paintings are placed on the side altars: the Madonna and Child with Saints Firmo and Lorenzo ...
The Sanctuary of San Rocco is a small church that owes its current appearance to numerous embellishments. The sanctuary is easy to reach thanks to an easy path that starts from the churchyard of the parish church of San Zenone. The building stands on a natural promontory dominating the entire basin and was built during the plague of the 16th ...
The Sanctuary of San Rocco, also called the Sanctuary of the Madonna del Popolo by the people of Gardone, was completed in 1582 on the hill overlooking the town of Gardone Val Trompia. Its original function of protection from plagues was, in fact, replaced by a new one: on 27 April 1768, the Confraternity of San Rocco transferred a 17th-century ...
The ancient Sanctuary of Sant'Emiliano stands guard over the town of Sarezzo and the Media Valle Trompia. The sanctuary can be reached by four different paths that start from the municipalities of Sarezzo, Lumezzane, Marcheno and Gardone Val Trompia. A road climbs up from the Sarezzo hamlet of Zanano which allows you to drive up to 500 metres from the ...
The Sanctuary of Sant'Onofrio is located in the municipality of Bovezzo but can be easily reached by car from Lumezzane. The complex has ancient origins although it was only mentioned for the first time in 1505. Today, those who visit the church find a relatively homogeneous building whose appurtenances have grown over the centuries and now cover three of the ...
For centuries, the Sanctuary of Santa Maria Addolorata, also known as Madonna delle Fontane, has been a place of great devotion both for the inhabitants of Caino and generally for those in the neighbouring areas. Originally, the Sanctuary was a "santella" (wayside shrine) located along a mountain path and open at the front, according to the pastoral visits of the ...
The Sanctuary of Santa Maria del Giogo is immersed in an unspoilt landscape that sweeps from the Polaveno valley to the wide basin of Sebino. An ancient monastery, the building stands on the border of the municipalities of Polaveno and Sulzano, whose boundaries run along the western wall of the structure. Forfeited during the Napoleonic suppressions and now largely privately ...
The Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Misericordia or “Madonna di Bovegno” is part of the "Via del Sacro e dell'Arte" itinerary. The Marian sanctuary, perhaps the most famous in the valley, stands perched on the slope of the mountain leading to Bovegno, on the spot where the Virgin appeared to the young Maria Amadini in 1527. Although the complex is ...
