Camerata Cornello

Camerata Cornello
Country	Italy
region	Lombardy
province	Bergamo  (BG)
Coordinates	45 ° 54 '  N , 9 ° 39'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 54 '0 "  N , 9 ° 39' 0"  E
height	570  m slm
surface	12 km²
Residents	599 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	50 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	24010
prefix	0345
ISTAT number	016048
Popular name	Cameratesi
Patron saint	Santa Maria Assunta
Website	Camerata Cornello
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Camerata Cornello is an Italian municipality in the province of Bergamo in Lombardy with 599 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

The Cornello dei Tasso parliamentary group is a member of the I borghi più belli d'Italia (The Most Beautiful Places in Italy) association.

geography

Camerata Cornello is located in Val Brembana 20 km north of the provincial capital Bergamo and 60 km northeast of the metropolis of Milan . In addition to the Camerata community center, there are eight districts ( frazioni ).

The neighboring municipalities are Cassiglio , Lenna , Piazza Brembana , San Giovanni Bianco and Taleggio .

Attractions

Church of SS. Cornelio e Cipriano

In the Middle Ages, the place was a trading center on the connection from Lombardy to Valtellina . The church in the district of Cornello dei Tasso dates from the fourteenth century, is dedicated to Saints Cornelius and Cyprian and contains frescoes and a Romanesque church tower. The Palazzo Tasso served as a lookout point due to its high location. Here was the ancestral seat of the noble Tasso family, which can be traced back to the 13th century; a sideline are the Thurn and Taxis . Since various branches of the family have run postal services, the museum is also dedicated to postal history. One room in the museum is dedicated to the poet Torquato Tasso , about whom JW Goethe wrote a play . The medieval Borgo can only be reached on foot. The access road ends in a parking lot about 200 m in front of the gate.

The parish church in the main town of Camerata, built in the seventeenth century, is also frequently mentioned and is dedicated to the Holy Mother Mary. There are also paintings by Francesco Zucco in the church.

The district of Cornello dei Tasso is a member of the association "I borghi pui belli d'Italia" (The most beautiful villages in Italy).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ^ I borghi più belli d'Italia. Borghipiubelliditalia.it, accessed July 27, 2017 (Italian). 
3. ^ Stephan Juergens: Handbook of the Italian Philately - Museo dei Tasso in Camerata Cornello. Retrieved June 18, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Homepage. Retrieved June 18, 2017 (it-IT). 

literature

• Tarcisio Bottani - Ermanno Arrigoni, Camerata Cornello. Mille anni di storia civile e religiosa , Corponove, Bergamo, 2004 ISBN 88-878-3135-1
• Tarcisio Bottani - Wanda Taufer, Da Bergamo all'Europa: le vie storiche Mercatorum e Priula , Bergamo 2007 (Museo dei Tasso e della storia postale Camerata Cornello. Documenti e ricerche; 5) ISBN 9788887831733

Web links

Commons : Camerata Cornello  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Museo dei Tasso e della storia postale