Cornello is a medieval village that has linked his name to the time-honoured Tasso family, renowned around the world for the great poet Torquato and for the entrepreneurial skills of some of its family members, who ran the postal service of the Habsburg Empire since the sixteenth century.
In the Middle Ages the village was a very important centre of trade and passage of people and goods because of the presence of the Via Mercatorum (merchants’ road) which linked Bergamo to the Valtellina.
Starting from 1592 a new road was built, the Strada Priula, which ran along the valley bottom and left Cornello isolated. This led to the decline of the village but favoured the preservation of its original urban structure.
