Albino (Lombardy)

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Country	Italy
region	Lombardy
province	Bergamo  (BG)
Local name	Albì
Coordinates	45 ° 46 '  N , 9 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 45 '38 "  N , 9 ° 47' 49"  E
height	342  m slm
surface	31.32 km²
Residents	17,800 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	568 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	24021
prefix	035
ISTAT number	016004
Popular name	Albinesi
Patron saint	San Giuliano e Sant'Albino
Website	www.comune.albino.bg.it

Albino is an Italian commune ( comune ) with 17,800 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Bergamo in the Lombardy region .

geography

The neighboring municipalities are Aviatico , Borgo di Terzo , Casazza , Cenate Sopra , Cene , Gaverina Terme , Gazzaniga , Luzzana , Nembro , Pradalunga , Selvino , Trescore Balneario and Vigano San Martino .

Attractions

• Parish Church of San Giuliano, founded in 898. The bell tower, built in 1497, was designed by Cosimo Fanzago.
• San Bartolomeo Monastery, built in the 12th century in the Lombard-Gothic style. It contains frescoes from a renovation in the 16th century.
• Church of Santa Maria della Concezione (late 15th century), and Madonna del Lupo called
• Cistercian Abbey of San Benedetto in Vallalta in the Abbazia district
• Casa della Misericordia from 1570 with frescoes by Giovan Battista Moroni
• Casa Solari (16th century)

traffic

Albino is on the SS 671 road through the Serio Valley. It is connected to Bergamo by the Bergamo – Albino light rail . It is the starting point of the Albino – Selvino cable car to the higher-lying neighboring towns of Selvino and Aviatico .

literature

• Anna Ferrari-Bravo, Paola Colombini: Guida d'Italia. Lombardia (esclusa Milano). Milano 1987, p. 496.

Web links

Commons : Albino  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Albino (Italian) on lombardiabeniculturali.it/luoghi/
• Albino (Italian) on tuttitalia.it/lombardia/

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.