Queen Theodolinda’s is a good story.
Once upon a time, there was no elder of Lemine (as the place was called before the division between the two villages: Almenno San Bartolomeo and Almenno San Salvatore); there was no elder, we said, who did not attribute to the fabled queen every ancient and somewhat out-of-the-norm building present on this territory at the beginning of the valleys Brembana and Imagna and crossed by the Brembo River. It was Queen Theodolinda who had erected the temple of San Tomé and the beautiful churches of Madonna del Castello, San Giorgio and San Nicola.
And it was even she who had built the bridge whose ruins still emerge from the riverbed.
It was she, they said, who engaged in these works while waiting for her royal husband, away on command and war commitments.
