The Museum of the Tasso Family and Postal History was founded in 1991, in two historic buildings in the medieval village of Cornello dei Tasso and preserves many testimonies of the postal activity, and not only, of the Tasso family, known worldwide for the poet Torquato and for the entrepreneurial skills of some of its members who, starting from the sixteenth century, managed the imperial posts of the Habsburgs. The Museum is divided into four exhibition spaces, each of which develops and deepens the postal history and the history of the Tasso family. Here are preserved numerous documents related to their activity in the management of postal services and, in general, to postal history, including a letter from 1840 franked with the world's first issued postage stamp, the famous Penny Black. Alongside the pieces dedicated to postal and communication history are those dedicated to the poets Bernardo and Torquato Tasso, among which stands out a sixteenth-century copy of the Jerusalem Conquered. In medieval times, the village of Cornello was an important center for commercial exchanges and the passage of people and goods thanks to the presence of the Via Mercatorum (merchants' road) connecting Bergamo to Valtellina. Starting from 1592, Cornello found itself isolated due to the construction of a new road, the Strada Priula, which ran along the valley floor separating the village from the new road network. This led to the decline of the village, but favored the preservation of the original urban layout, which still today can only be accessed on foot.