Albino, Lombardy

History

Main sights

• Parrocchiale di San Giuliano, founded in 898. Rebuilt in neoclassicist style in the early 19th century, it houses works by Giovan Battista Moroni, Enea Salmeggia and others. The bell tower was designed by Cosimo Fanzago.
• Convent of San Bartolomeo, in Lombard-Gothic style. It includes frescoes from the 16th-century renovation, 21 wooden sculptures in the choir and polyptych in gilded wood. It is a national monument.
• Sanctuary of the Madonna del Pianto. It is home to a canvas by Moroni with Christ Carrying the Cross and one by Salmaggia, The Deposition.
• Church of the Conception. It has a notable portico and a frescoes from the 14th and 16th centuries.
• Sanctuary of the Madonna of the Snow, on the country road leading to Selvino. It dates from the 16th century, and has frescoes from the same age which were recently restored.
• Church of Sant'Anna, designed by Giovan Battista Caniana.
• Sanctuary of Altino, in the frazione Vall'Alta.
• Cistercian Abbey
• Sanctuary of Madonna della Gamba, in the frazione Desenzano al Serio. Erected from 1448, it honours a miracle that took place in 1440, when a maiden, praying the Virgin, was miraculously saved from the injuries received to her leg. It houses works by Enea Salmeggia, Palma il Giovane, Andrea Fantoni and others.
• Parish of St. Peter, a notable example of Lombard-Gothic architecture, in the frazione Desenzano al Serio.
• Casa della Misericordia, with frescoes by Moroni.
• Casa Solari.

  Bounding communes

• Gazzaniga
• Cene
• Gaverina Terme
• Casazza
• Vigano San Martino
• Borgo di Terzo
• Luzzana
• Trescore Balneario
• Cenate Sopra
• Pradalunga
• Selvino