{"id":3298,"date":"2023-01-09T10:24:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T09:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valcavallina.publifarm.com\/luogo_di_interesse\/santuario-di-santa-maria-assunta\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T09:49:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T07:49:43","slug":"the-sanctuary-of-santa-maria-assunta","status":"publish","type":"luogo_di_interesse","link":"https:\/\/invalcavallina.it\/en\/place_of_intrest\/the-sanctuary-of-santa-maria-assunta\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sanctuary of Santa Maria Assunta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Huge, disturbing, and not as reassuring as the figure of Christ should be. It is the Signor\u00f9, an imposing statue over two metres tall that has terrified generations of children in the valley, ended up underground and then exhumed and today is the symbol of the Bianzano Sanctuary, from which it reaches the church of San Rocco in procession every year. But it is not the only mysterious element.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They call it Signor\u00f9<\/strong> in the Bergamo dialect, which means\u00a0“Il Signorone”.\u00a0A statue from the early 20th<\/sup> century carved from a single piece of wood<\/strong> depicting Jesus<\/strong> stands in the niche of the church of Santa Maria Assunta built in 1234. According to legend, Christ – who at the time had his arms extended – so frightened the faithful by his incumbency that\u00a0it was decided\u00a0to detach his arms and bury him<\/strong>.
This gesture,\u00a0as strange as it was sacrilegious, generated a chain of misfortunes and natural disasters<\/strong> that\u00a0befell\u00a0the village\u00a0according\u00a0to the inhabitants.\u00a0To break the chain of tragedies, the “body” was exhumed\u00a0and\u00a0its arms were\u00a0reattached, straight down the trunk and no longer spread wide. Today, devotion to the statue is total,\u00a0and\u00a0every year\u00a0the\u00a0Signor\u00f9 is carried in procession through the village.
The church, on the other hand, is a building that, according to unconfirmed sources, may have been frequented by Templars<\/strong>, whose traces seem to lead to various points in the village, including the castle that stands on a terrace overlooking the valley and lake, not far from the centre of Bianzano.
Offering information on the ancient name of the\u00a0village,\u00a0is the slab, perhaps used as a tombstone, found in the Church of the Assumption, where the word\u00a0“Bienciano”\u00a0is carved, from which the current name evolved.\u00a0Other tombstones surround this church, including a very rare circular one<\/strong>, testifying to a change in the function of this church, which started as a parish church and\u00a0was transformed later into a cemetery following the construction of the nearby Church of San Rocco. Not to be missed inside is the altar created by the Fantoni family of sculptors and carvers from Bergamo: take a close look at it if you dare to walk past the statue of Signor\u00f9!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DETAILS OF INTEREST<\/strong>:
<\/strong>– The large wooden statue of the Deposition of Christ known as \u201cSignor\u00f9\u201d
– The splendid wooden ciborium by Andrea Fantoni (18th<\/sup> century)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VISITING INFORMATION:
<\/strong>– The Sanctuary is open to the public only on request and according to the opening schedule displayed by the municipality of Bianzano;
– It is possible to book group visits for at least 10 people on other dates than those scheduled;
– Duration of the visit: around 20 minutes;
– Parking: Yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Promotional material provided by the cultural and tourist association Associazione culturale e turistica Pro Bianzano<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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