ABSTRACT
The church of Santa Maria Elisabetta is a stone masonry church dating back to the XVI century. It was built in Val Gandino, near Bergamo, in northern Italy along an important trade route. The current state of the church is extremely poor, as part of the wooden roof collapsed in the sixties of last century, thus seriously damaging the vault of the presbytery. This religious devotion, which could emanate from the successful completion of a journey, motivates the built of a small chapel, which became later a church at the beginning of what was called the "Wool Road" that led to northern Europe. Since 1400 and for several centuries, merchants of Val Gandino, in what is nowadays called Lombardy, traded woolen cloth between their valley and Europe, with particular focus on the German market and northern Europe. They exchanged their goods with money and extraordinary artifacts, mainly at Bolzano fairs.
