The Parish Church of Solto "Our Lady of the Assumption's"
The parish church was the place of the beginning and of the end: only in
this kind of churches it was possible to be christened and to be buried. The rural parish churches signed the first evangelization in the countryside. In the XII century, at Solto Collina, there was a church with a font, as we can read in a parchment of the "Archivio Capitolare in Bergamo" which dates back to about 1l80.so1, IX solvit Manfredus Plebis de Saltu (Manfredo from the parish church of Solto paìd nine coins). It Is quoted in the register of the parish churches of Bergamo 0f 1260 and of 1360. It was the Mother church of the parish churches of Esmate, Zorzino, Riva, Castro, Pianico with Sellere.
24 th july - 1471 the Bishop Ludovico Donato solemny consacred the archipresbiteral parish church of Our Lady of the Assumption at Solto.
1535 - - the church has three altars.
1575 - the church has a beII-tower with three belis and five altars: the Main, the Annunciation's, St. Cathrine's, ~, the Holy Sacrament's and St. Bernard's.
Tthe main altar has "an icon where Our Lady's Assumption is carved. This is very beautiful and closed with panels..."
1615 - 1629 * the present sacristy and a new presbytery with choir are built.
1659 - the church has five altars: the Main consecrated to Our Lady of the Assumption where the confraternity of Our Lady of the Carmelite is ercted, St. Bernard's, the Annunciation's, Our Lady of the Rosairy's and the Holly Sacrament's.
1703 - the church has seven altars: the Main, the Annuncìation's, the Rosary's, Christ's Passion's, St. Bernard's, Our Lady of the Carmalite's and St. Joseph s.
1778 - the bell - tower is rebuilt and the choir modified.
1780 - consecration of the new main altar by Bishop Dolfin and consecration
to Our Lady of the Assumption "as anciently"..
1813 - painting of the vault by Vincenzo Orelli.
1908 - the entire building is restored and renovated under the direction of
Architect EIia Fomoni. The partner Giuseppe Riva frescoed the vault of the
presbytery and of the nave. On 17th July Bischop Racdini Tedeschi consecred
a concert of eight bells, five of them still existing, while three, requisited in
1943 becaue of the war, were replaced and consecred by Bishop Bernareggi
on 1st May 1948.
1937 - new tribune in polychromatic marbles of the main altar on Luigi
Angelini's design.
1962 - the ancient stairs made of pebbles and large steps of Sarnico's
stones is replaced with the present made of stones from Grè.
1981 - - replacement of the main altar.
1996 - replacement of the pebbles of the church courtyard and addition of
walking pavements in Sarnico's stones.

St. Rocco Oratory
In the deeds of the pastoral Visit paid by the Bishop Lippomanno on 28th JuIy 1535 to the parish church of Solto we can read "in this place there Is an Oratory consecrated to St. Rocco's."
This church was built in the first years of 1500 as votive oratory after a plague.
The consecration of the church to this saint Is due to hìs charity towards the ill with plague.
On our hill we have three other oratories consecrated to St. Rocco and precisely at Riva, Esmate and Fonteno.
In 1575, year of the visit paid by St. Carlo Borromeo (Charles Borromew)
to the parish church of Solto, the oratory had two altars, the former consecrated to St. Rocco and the latter to St. Antony.
The Iatter was where there is the fresco of the Pietà between St. Rocco and a Saint Bishop, on the left wall (late 1500).
The altar-piece shows Our Lady of the Assumption between St. Rocco and St. Antony (unknown author of 1600).
In 1625 the church had a bell-tower with only a bell. The two present bells are dated 1878.
In 1630, year of the BIack Death, the inhabitants of Solto and Furmignano, with the deed of the notary Quinto Faresti from Solto, vowed to celebrate the feast of the saints Rocco, Fabian, Sebastian and Defendente and to sing mass in the feast of St. Rocco. In 1996 St. Rocco's square was built and in 1997 the church was renovated. Every year, in January, on St. Antony's Eve, the traditional bonfire is burnt.

The "Santelle" 
(very small buildings consacreted to one more saints)
The 'Santelle' were much more than the ones we can see today, they were:
at "Fico" (IV November St), the "santella" consecrated to the Crucified
at St. Eurosia St, the "santella consecrated to St. Eurosia
at Crest (crossroads for Fonteno) another "santella"consecrated to the Crucfied
at "Castello" (Contrada Castello) santella consecrated fo the Birth of Jesus
in Panteno, santella to Our Lady of the Rosary
near the cimitery, santella consecrated to Christ's Deposition. The last one was the most important architectonally: the ceiling was vaulted supported by small columns and there was a small wall al the bottom.
Here one could rest or repair from a storm or from the heat. A little path passed in front of it and bended there, so who was going up to the cimitery could not help looking at it.
At Solto there are still the following:
at via S. Rocco (St. Anne and Joachim)
towards Zorzinø (Our Lady of Lourdes)
at Sales (the Virgin Mary with her Child and souls in purgatory)
towards Esmate (Our Lady of the Rosary)
towards Piangaiano (The Holy Family)
These old "santelle" were a lot, they were wanted by the faith and gratitude of the singles or of the community.
They were along the streets or at the crossroads and were reference and meeting points, objects of devotion or destination of short walks.
Let's sit down on the stone step of one of our "santelle" and be silent. Our remembrances will come with the sounds of a past time: creaking of wheels, cries of animals, pealing of cows'bells, singing of young women and happy choirs, bells striking which measured the slow flow of the day.

St. Geroge's Oratory or  Disciplines' (XV century) and the Crucified's Oratory (XVIII century)
St. George's Oratory, built in a cimetery area, is named in a document dated 2nd January 1452. It was the seat of the "Disciplini Bianchi" or "Battuti" for ages. Thi confraternity was born in the city of Bergamo in the XIV century under the invocation of St. Marie Magdalene and from there it rapidly spread in the whole province, as we can see in a gonfalon of 1732. The Brothers held penitential processions with the airn to optein protection and help fom God, they flagellated themselves, they look care of the ill, they buried the dead and they prayed from them. In the second half of 1400 the Disciplines from Solto commitioned a series of frescos on Jesus's life for the choir of their Oratory to the painter Giacomo Busca from Clusone. In 1700 part of this building was demolished to make room for the present Crucified's Oratory in order to give a right collocation to the woonden group by Andrea Fantoni, made in 1717 and composed by the Crucified between the statues of the Justice and the Mercy above a groups of souls in purgatory. The name "St. Geroge" began disappearing and made room for the name "The Crucified's Oratory". The Brothers of the Holy Sacrament, whose "Scola" (school) still existed in 1500, substituited the "Disciplini Bianchi" and in the "Disciplina" (the name given to the oratory by the Brothers) they wore the clothes for the important celebrations: a tunic with a red cape, a medallion with a monstrance painted on it. During the processions they brought lamps on long wooden sticks. This Confraternity, known as "Gesuplì" or "Gisuplì", was dissolved in 1950. The ancient Congregation of the "Virgins of St. Ursula", founded at Solto in 1671, assembled in the "Disciplina" too. In 1712 it had 30 members.

The ancien house of the Parish Priest
This building is already mentioned in the inventory register of the parish church of Solto on 2nd January 1452. The oldest part, the "Domus Plebis", dates back to the XII-XIII century. The building was renovated in the XVI century and became the "Chaplain's House": the Chaplain Count Gerolamo Albani died here on 7th April 1763. It was used as Sacristan's house from the rnd of 1800 to 1975. The last renovation was in 1988. The date 1431 is engraved on a stone in the wall near the Nothern entrance.

The  new house of the Parish Priest
From the inventory register of the parish church of Our Lady of the Assumption, complied by the notary Count Bernardo Foresti on 2nd January 1452, we know that this house was covered in bent tiles and composed by some rooms with vaulted roofs named "cilter", and was situated under St. Geroge's Oratory and the churchyard, near the cimitery. Is was next to a building of the "Consorzio della Misericodia" (Mercy Association) of Solto. The parish priest moved here from the old house at the end of 1400. In the painting of "St. Eurosia Regina" (XVII century), collocated on the presbitery of the parish church, this house is painted as imposing as it is now, but without the top floor, the terrace and a small building on the west side.