Convent of the Neveri ---

In the village of Averga, between present-day Bariano and Morengo, Romans of the republican age built the first nucleus of the building, embellishing it with columns and mosaics; centuries later, their Christian fellow citizens of the Late Empire converted it into a mausoleum, covering it with splendid frescoes that vividly illustrate some episodes from the Old Testament. In the 6th century the Lombards transformed it into a baptistery attached to the parish church and reused the ancient adjacent cemetery area to bury their dead: some Roman and Lombard tombs are still visible today. It is still the murals that transport us through the Early Middle Ages and the Renaissance, when the inhabitants of Bariano Averga, now disappeared, swept away by the floods of the Serio river and the Carmelite friars