Splendours of the Romanesque in Almenno

The story of Queen Theodolinda is a beautiful one. Once upon a time, there was no elderly person in Lemine (as the place was called before the division between the two towns: Almenno San Bartolomeo and Almenno San Salvatore) who did not know it. The territory stretched between the Brembana and Imagna valleys and was crossed by the Brembo river. It was Queen Theodolinda who had raised the temple of San Tomé and the beautiful churches of Madonna del Castello, San Giorgio and San Nicola. And it was even she who built the bridge whose ruins still emerge from the riverbed. It was she, they said, who devoted herself to these works while waiting for her royal husband, who was away on military and command duties.