Farmacia Viganò

The 2026-2027 calendar of ATS Bergamo, approved by resolution no. 299 of 21 May 2026, gives the pharmacy five opening days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, from 9.00 to 12.30 and from 14.30 to 19.00. On Thursday and Sunday it is closed, except during duty weeks and special openings. These hours apply from 24 August 2026 to 31 May 2027, after the summer period when the pharmacy opened every day.

On some public holidays the calendar provides a special morning opening, from 9.00 to 12.30. ATS warns that the calendar does not include changes notified during the year: if you really need a medicine, ring 0345 95093 first.

In Valle Brembana the night and holiday service is organised by weeks: every week two pharmacies in the valley are on duty 24 hours a day, and the one in Oltre il Colle takes its turn one week in seven. According to the Federfarma Bergamo calendar, the October duty runs from 8.30 on Friday 2 to 8.30 on Friday 9; that week the other duty pharmacy in the valley is the one in San Pellegrino Terme.

Open pharmacies and those on duty keep their illuminated green cross switched on. Outside opening hours, and at night with the doors closed, the pharmacist on duty does not have to stay in the shop but must be available within twenty minutes of being called, as ATS points out.

At night, from 20.00 to 8.00, an additional call-out fee set by decree is charged on medicines: 7.50 or 10 euros depending on the type of pharmacy, according to Federfarma Bergamo. It is not charged on National Health Service prescriptions on which the doctor has marked the urgency. The up-to-date calendar, with changes, is on the Federfarma Bergamo website, by choosing the municipality, or in the Farmacia Aperta app recommended by ATS.

In Val Serina the nearest is the Farmacia Valserina in Serina, at via Palma il Vecchio 53: according to the ATS calendar it opens on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 9.00 to 13.00 and from 16.00 to 20.00, on Wednesday mornings only, and it is closed on Sunday. Then there is the pharmaceutical dispensary in Dossena, run by the same Farmacia Viganò: it opens on Thursday from 16.00 to 18.30 and on the other days from Monday to Saturday from 9.30 to 12.00.

On the Val Seriana side, beyond the Passo di Zambla, there are the pharmacy in Gorno, at piazza Erdeno 1, open Monday to Friday from 8.30 to 12.30 and from 15.00 to 19.00 and on Saturday mornings, and the one in Ponte Nossa, at via Europa 117/A, open Monday to Saturday from 8.30 to 12.30 and from 15.00 to 19.15. When a pharmacy closes for holidays it shows the nearest open pharmacies and their hours, ATS reminds.

The pharmacy is on the main street of the village, about 110 metres as the crow flies from the post office and 250 from the town hall. In December 2024 the municipal council granted, for five renewable years, the use of the public pavement for a removable access ramp to the pharmacy for people with disabilities: according to the resolution it will allow people with reduced mobility to enter on their own. The resolution does not say when it was to be installed.

In summer 2026, from 4 July to 6 September, a mayor's order introduced the parking disc in the car parks along via Roma: in the stretch between numbers 201 and 296, where the pharmacy is, the maximum stay was one hour, from 8.00 to 20.00. On the outside wall of a building next to the pharmacy, OpenStreetMap shows a defibrillator accessible 24 hours a day.