Borno ( Camunian: ) is an Italian

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Val Camonica Val Camonica (also ''Valcamonica'' or Camonica Valley, Eastern Lombard: ''Al Camònega'') is one of the largest valleys of the central Alps, in eastern Lombardy, Italy. It extends about from the Tonale Pass to Corna Trentapassi, in the ...

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Lombardy Lombardy ( it, Lombardia, Lombard language, Lombard: ''Lombardia'' or ''Lumbardia' '') is an administrative regions of Italy, region of Italy that covers ; it is located in the northern-central part of the country and has a population of about 10 ...

. It is located on the so-called ''plateau of the Sun''.

Main sights

Torre Dabeni - Borno (Foto Luca Giarelli)

* Parish Church of San Martin and

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(18th century). * Oratory of San Antonio, right of the parish. It houses a fresco by

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. * Oratory of the Disciplini * Church of Our Lady of Sorrows (17th century) * Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, previously dedicated to Saints Vitus and Modestus (16th century) * Church of San Fiorino (or Floriano) from the 9th century, with the nave from the 16th century. * Church of San Fermo, remodeled in the 16th and 17th century.

Culture

The scütüm are, in

Camunian dialect Eastern Lombard is a group of closely related variants of Lombard, a Gallo-Italic dialect spoken in Lombardy, mainly in the provinces of Bergamo, Brescia and Mantua, in the area around Cremona and in parts of Trentino. Its main variants are Be ...

, nicknames, sometimes personal, elsewhere showing the characteristic features of a community. The one which characterize the people of Borno are ''Burnàs, Bigi, Làder, maia patate''.

People

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, Roman Catholic cardinal

References

Sources

External links

Historical photos - Intercam

Historical photos - Lombardia Beni Culturali
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