Our next stop is in Gardone Val Trompia, a municipality in the middle valley known for the presence of the convent complex of Santa Maria degli Angeli, including the Basilica and the Convent.

Built in the mid-fifteenth century at the behest of San Bernardino da Siena, the church has been restored several times and is still open to the public, while the adjacent convent complex is privately owned. The central lunette depicting the Madonna degli Angeli, painted in 1502, stands out in the extensive frescos decoration of the presbytery, dating back to the early sixteenth century. Further noteworthy elements are the fifteenth-century cloister of the convent, the Room of the Cenacle and the Rizzinelli Fund, a collection of books published between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries.      

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