Probably inserted in the Roman period in the district that had Dossena as its center, it developed along the ancient via "Mercatorum" which connected the Val Brembana and the Valle Seriana.
Like other surrounding territories, during the Middle Ages it was troubled by the struggles between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines, undergoing looting and destruction, which continued even during the war between the Duchy of Milan and the Venetian Republic, under whose rule it acquired great importance, rising to capital of the upper Val Brembana square.
With the consolidation of the Venetian dominion it experienced a long period of peace, which favored its economic growth, linked above all to the exploitation of the local iron mines.
Among the noble families of the place we must remember those of the Valle, the Carrara and the Tiraboschi, who played an important role in the history of the whole Bergamasco.
Its historical-architectural heritage includes: the parish church, from the mid-eighteenth century, with valuable works of art from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; the oratory of San Bernardino;
the seventeenth-century monastery of the Holy Trinity;
the church of San Rocco, with frescoes from the fifteenth century;
the churches of Santa Margherita and Sant'Antonio, respectively in the localities of Castello and Carera.
Places of interest are also the so-called "Ca 'Rafaei", the home of the Venetian vicar and some ancient buildings in the old part of the town, built in squared stone blocks.
On 9 April 1961 the ancient coat of arms of Serina was approved by the city council, found on the title page of the acts of the "Statutum Vallis Brembanae Superioris" of 1468.
The mayor of the time had prepared another coat of arms, approved shortly before, in which in addition to the siren there was a palette, on a red background, as a tribute to the famous Venetian Renaissance painter Palma the Elder, pseudonym of Jacomo Nigretti de Lavalle, who he was born in Serina.
The municipal administration, as soon as they discovered the old one, did not consider it appropriate to make changes to the original.
The coat of arms is not only talking, evoking the name of the town, but full of important allusions to its history.
The popular legend has it that Serina derives from the melodious song of the sirens that could be heard rising from the stream.
The image of the siren recalls how once the Municipality was not only the capital of the whole Val Brembana Superiore with its own vicar, but an important center of connection between the two Brembana and Seriana valleys.
The tails, described in the resolution as pisciform, allude to this particular geographic conformation.
The three stars instead symbolize the three most important families: Carrara, Tiraboschi and della Valle.
Serina is a totally mountainous town of 2,076 inhabitants, located at 820 meters above sea level. in the Province of Bergamo, its territory extends over an area of 27.50 sq km
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