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There are countless works and structures
which testify to the past years but which are still
present in the 42 towns of the Camonica Valley, recounting
its various historical phases.
Besides being an element of remarkable attraction for
tourists and mountain lovers, they mainly represent
a memorial factor of the valley population who looks
to the past in order to be projected into the future.
Several artistic and cultural attractions also take
place which are worthy of being mentioned. First of
all, the different museums situated all over the territory:
ethnographic museums (Ossimo, Lozio, Cerveno, Vione)
which, through tools and various objects, reproduce
the way people lived in the past, the archaeological
museums concerning the rock etchings, the museum of
Temù's white war with the testimony of the battles
fought in Adamello, the forge museum in Bienno showing
the traditions concerning the iron working obtained
from the handling of molten iron owing to hammer actioned
by water which for years has represented a fundamental
economical source for the entire Camonica Valley.
Furthermore, the visitor comes across extraordinarily
beautiful churches inside which it is possible to admire
marvellous frescoes, works by painters of a remarkable
standard such as il Romanino in the churches of Santa
Maria Annunciata in Bienno, Santa Maria Della Neve in
Pisogne and Sant'Antonio in Breno.
The Pieve di San Siro e San Salvatore in Capo di Ponte
of an unusual beauty, and the recently restructured
church of San Giovanni Battista in Edolo, the retreat
of Saints Peter and Paul, an imposing building situated
in Bienno .
In Cividate Camuno the visitor can admire ancient Roman
ruins contained both inside the recently restructured
museum and out in the open in the theatre and amphitheatre,
which were recently discovered and are a testimony of
an ancient Roman capital in the Camonica Valley. There
are the castles of Breno and Cimbergo, La Via Crucis
(the Way Of The Cross) in Cerveno, an eighteenth-century
wooden work of art representing Jesus Christ's Passion
and death, the Annunciata convent in Piancogno. But
there is still so much more to discover by visiting
the various towns in the Camonica Valley which safeguard
various works of art worthy of a visit.
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