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The Porta Sant’ Agostino city gate is the Southern gate to Città Alta for all motorized traffic. Although the center gate is just a single lane, all traffic (including the buses and trucks) have to...
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The Upper City has a core and that is Piazza Vecchia. It is not too big, but it is adorned by artistic beauties and places of historical interest as a pearl necklace would do. It is difficult to stop...
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Città Bassa or the lower town is probably the first part of the town of Bergamo that you will encounter. The train station is the main port to town. The nicest thing about Città Bassa is that it's...
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The church of Santa Maria Maggiore, in Piazza Duomo, near Piazza Vecchia, in the center of the upper city, is a church built in the XII century in order to ask Mary to protect Bergamo from the plague....
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The Colleoni's chapel is the mausoleum of Bartolomeo Colleoni, a military leader that made this chapel build as tomb for himself and for his daughter Medea. In the chapel there is a wonderful golden...
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The Bergamo Cathedral is in the Piazza Vecchia, in the upper city. It is a small cathedral near the biggest Santa Maria Maggiore church, and it has a very beautiful architecture. If you visit the...
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The Statue of Harlequin is a statue near the Urban Center, in the Lower City. Harlequin is the Commedia dell'Arte mask form Bergamo, and is statue is just here...
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The historic laundry in the Upper city is near to the Gombito Tower. It was built in the XIX century and it was used till the '50es. Now it is one of the most...
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San Giacomo gate is one of the gate to the Upper City. From the Lower City Center you will recognize it: it is the white gate exactly in front of you. You can...
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Colli di Bergamo is a natural Park between the city and some town in the Brembana Valley. Its center is in the Valmarina Monastery, in Ramera district. Here...
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The Carrara Academy is one of the oldest art gallery in Italy. It was founded at the end of the XVIII Century by the Count Carrara and it collects a big number...
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The Donizetti Museum is a museum about Donzietti, the composer from Bergamo. Here you will find documents, objects and also music instruments that Donizetti...
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The Bernareggi Museum is a religious museum in Bergamo. It is in via Pignolo, in the lower part of the city and it collects a lot of painting, sculptures and...
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In the St. Bernardino Church in the lower city, you can see the most wonderful altarpiece painted by Lorenzo Lotto. In this altarpiece there are Our Lady with...
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The St. Augustine Church is near the St. Augustine's gate, one of the gate to the upper city. It is a Gothic church, with wonderful rose window and...
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The St. Bartolomeo and Stefano Church is a baroque church situated in the lower part of Bergamo, near the Donizetti Theater. Here you can find the Martinengo...
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Cittadella is a medieval military outpost built in Colle Aperto by the Visconti, lords of Milan, during their domination, but in the Venetian period it became a...
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The Gombito Tower is a tower built by the Del Zoppo family in the middle of the upper city, near an important roman cross-route. It is 52 meters high and you...
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Gamec is the Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery in Bergamo. It is in the lower part of the city and it opened in 1991. The gallery includes a permanent...
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The Archaeological Museum of Bergamo is in the Cittadella, near Colle Aperto, in the upper town. Here you can discover the story of the city since 2000 b.C. to...
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The Creberg Theater, opened in 2004, is the "modern" theater of Bergamo and it proposes a lot of very exciting concerts, cabarets, musicals, dancing shows and...
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The Partisan Monument is a sculpture of Giacomo Manzù, an important sculptor from Bergamo, and it is located in Porta Nuova, in the center of the lower city. It...
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The Contarini fountain is the symbol of Bergamo and it is in Piazza Vecchia, the most important square of the upper city. Alvise Contarini, a Venetian governor,...
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The Donizetti's Birthplace is in Borgo Canale, in the upper city. The Donizetti family was very poor, all the family people worked as servant in the...
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Bergamo is located about 45 km from Milan, sitting 249 metres above sea level in the foothills of the Orobic Alps, which is at the exit of the 2 valleys of the Val Seriana and Val Brembana The Rivers...
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Bergamo was a lovely location in which to hold the 2012 VT Euromeeting. It has something for everyone – a picturesque old town (Città Alta) full of character, good restaurants, accommodation to suit...
Thanks to cheap flights, Bergamo has became one of the most visited place in Italy and the number of visitors is increasing permanently. The fact is, however, that most of the tourists use it's...
I went to Bergamo purely for research purposes...for the 2012 Eurmeet (see the travelogues below for photos of a that very successful meet). I knew it was an attractive place with supremely easy...
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