Ardesio is a comune

Comune

In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

in the province of Bergamo

Province of Bergamo

The Province of Bergamo is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy. It has a population of 1,098,740 , an area of 2,722.86 square km, and contains 244 comuni...

, in Lombardy

Lombardy

Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region, making it the most populous and richest region in the country and one of the richest in the whole of Europe...

, Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

. It also has a piazza

Piazza

A piazza is a city square in Italy, Malta, along the Dalmatian coast and in surrounding regions. The term is roughly equivalent to the Spanish plaza...

, a square named Piazza del Santuario. On the last Sunday of January people in Ardesio have a goat and donkey exhibition. In this exhibition you can find every kind of goats and donkeys. During this exhibition they award the most beautiful goat.
Every 31 January there is "La scasada dol zenerù" (the chasing of January). On this day they celebrate the end of the cold season. They build a puppet representing January and they burn it at the city hall.
On the 23rd June people celebrate the anniversary of the Virgin apparition. In this solemnity they commemorate two girls seeing the Virgin Mary in 1607. On this day they have a procession with the people, the band and a statue representing the Virgin, the two girls and the baby Jesus.

Coat of arms

Its coat of arms is covered with banana-like yellow with an oval-shaped crest in the middle with a label and green trees.

Bounding communes

• Valgoglio
  Valgoglio
  Valgoglio is a comune in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 80 km northeast of Milan and about 35 km northeast of Bergamo. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 614 and an area of 31.8 km².Valgoglio borders the following municipalities:...
  
  
• Gromo
  Gromo
  Gromo is a comune in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 80 km northeast of Milan and about 35 km northeast of Bergamo...
  
  
• Oltressenda Alta
  Oltressenda Alta
  Oltressenda Alta is a comune in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 80 km northeast of Milan and about 30 km northeast of Bergamo...
  
  
• Villa d'Ogna
  Villa d'Ogna
  Villa d'Ogna is a comune in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 80 km northeast of Milan and about 30 km northeast of Bergamo. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,891 and an area of 5.2 km².Villa d'Ogna borders the following...
  
  
• Parre
  Parre
  Parre is a comune in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 70 km northeast of Milan and about 25 km northeast of Bergamo...
  
  
• Premolo
  Premolo
  Premolo is a comune in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 70 km northeast of Milan and about 25 km northeast of Bergamo. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,094 and an area of 18.3 km².Premolo borders the following municipalities:...
  
  
• Oltre il Colle
  Oltre il Colle
  Oltre il Colle is a comune in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 70 km northeast of Milan and about 20 km northeast of Bergamo...
  
  
• Roncobello
  Roncobello
  Roncobello is a comune in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 70 km northeast of Milan and about 30 km north of Bergamo...
  
  
• Branzi
  Branzi
  Branzi is a comune in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 80 km northeast of Milan and about 35 km north of Bergamo. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 762 and an area of 25.3 km²...
  
  

External links

• http://lombardia.indettaglio.it/eng/comuni/bg/ardesio/ardesio.html
• arte_e_cultura/musei/museo_ardesio.htm Museo Etnocrafico di Ardesio
• Coat of arms of Ardesio
• Mapquest - Ardesio