Saint Bartholomew's patronal feast

The Pro Loco's summer booklet gives the day two lines: «S. Bartolomeo Apostolo, patron of Oltre il Colle» and, at 7 pm, a dinner at the parish centre for the patronal feast. The municipality, in a notice of 21 August, announced that its offices would close for the feast of Saint Bartholomew. The religious programme, masses and any processions, is not published on the web: the parish answers on 0345 95095 or at oltreilcolle@diocesibg.it.

The feast falls in the last full week of summer in the village. The day before, Sunday 23 August 2026, Zorzone had the special opening of the Minerals Museum with an aperitif and, in the evening, a show of jokes in piazza Carrara; on Tuesday 25 the markets and the dance evenings returned to the square.

The parish church stands high above the main village, at the top of a wide flight of steps. It became a parish in 1449, when the bishop of Bergamo detached it from the mother church of Lepreno, and was consecrated in 1780; the portico running round three sides of the façade comes from the enlargement designed by Luigi Angelini in the 1930s, and inside there are frescoes by Vincenzo Angelo Orelli and an organ by Carlo Bossi from the early nineteenth century. This guide's page on the church tells its history and works in detail.

For the diocese of Bergamo the parish of San Bartolomeo Apostolo has its seat at via Roma 171 and belongs to the Comunità ecclesiale territoriale 4 Valle Brembana, with the same parish priest as Zambla and Zorzone. The village band, the Corpo Musicale San Bartolomeo Apostolo, is also named after the saint; in 2026 it celebrated 120 years since its foundation with a concert at the Arena on 7 August.

The church is about 200 metres as the crow flies from the town hall in piazza Mons. Belotti and a few steps from the Piazzale degli Alpini, along via Roma. Near the church there is a public car park that OpenStreetMap marks as free. By bus you come with Arriva's line B, changing at Zogno, to the piazza Tiraboschi stop; 24 August 2026 was a Monday, a day when buses run.

In August, according to the ERA5 averages for the main village, the typical maximum is about 21 °C and the minimum 12 °C: you need a jacket for the evening.