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Sarnico (Bg) |
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 Sarnico
is the locality situated most southly of the Sebino; there where
the lake turns into the river Oglio. It is here where the coasts
of Bergamo and that of Brescia come together at a distance of only
80 metres. A highly touristic area with beautiful and typical
buildings facing the ‘piazza’s’ at the lake. On these squares
you’ll find restaurants, various cafe’s and bars. Sitting outside
the visitor can meanwhile enjoy a nice feeling small breeze coming
from the lake. On the lake side near ‘piazza xx settembre’, under
the shadow of the trees, one finds a small playground with
attractions for the little ones.
From ‘piazza Besenzoni’, following ‘via Lantieri’, the main
thoroughfare of the historic centre, one finds oneself in the
middle of the medieval testimonies |
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The
picture-gallery Bellini : exists thanks to a donation to Sarnico by a great
estimator and art admirer Don Gianni Bellini, of around 150
pieces of art, mostly paintings of the period between 1500 and
1700, that he had collected during his live.
Among the 128 paintings, there are works of Palma
il Giovane, Alessandro Magnasco, Antonio Cifrondi, Carlo Ceresa,
Nicolas Regnier and Francesco Cairo. Other than
paintings also valuable antique furniture were part of the
donation, as well as a few important sculptures; a wooden and a
few marble ones as well as 4 crucifixes of which a wooden one and
three in silvered copper. The picture-gallery is situated in the
most ancient part of the historic centre of Sarnico. Once it was a
nunnery, then it became residential ‘Palazzo Gervasoni’. On the
ground floor in the atrium and in the two rooms one will
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religious and primitive paintings. The rest of this floor is
dedicated to an office and deposit room. On the first floor follow
the rooms with paintings of the Venetian and Lombardian school, of
portraits and of the school of central Italy. In the gallery and
on the panels great works of higher importance are placed.
The top floor is dedicated
to the stil-lifes. |
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Parrocchiale:
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little upwards form the historic centre, one finds the
‘parrocchiale’ (parish) of 1700, a church dedicated to
‘San Martino of Tours’. Inside many decorations and paintings
among which the valuable painting that represents ‘San Martino e
l’imperatore Vanentiniano’. |
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S an Nazario e Rocco di Castione:
Del 1627; si trova sulla riva sinistra del torrente
Guerra. Poco è rimasto dell’originale struttura dopo gli
interventi del ‘400. Sono di notevole rilevanza gli affreschi
dell’esterno come la “Madonna con Bambino” e quelli
antichissimi dell’interno “Madonna con Bambino e S. Giovanni
Battista” , “S. Giacomo il Maggiore” e “S. Nazario Vescovo”. |
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San Paolo:
Si raggiunge seguendo la via S.Paolo, dalla via
Lantieri del centro
 storico. Costruita nel 1429 sulle vestigia
del castello di Sarnico. I restauri avvenuti nel XVII e ne XVIII
hanno compromesso lo stile originario. La zona adibita ad altare
si trova davanti l’ingresso. L’interno a una navata conserva
interessanti affreschi del ‘400. |
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