Clusone

Clusone stands in the Seriana valley among the mountains north of Bergamo. Its fortress, mentioned in a grant of 774, grew in the Middle Ages into a castle with walls and towers. A branch of the Milanese Fanzago family settled here at the end of the fourteenth century. Under Venetian rule, from the late fifteenth century, the town experienced a flourishing of commerce and the arts; it passed to the Cisalpine Republic after the Treaty of Campo Formio.