Upper town at dusk
Funicular up, a slow circuit of the walls, dinner in Piazza Vecchia.
Why only here
A funicular links a modern city to a Venetian fortress town that never left the sixteenth century. Add a whole workers' village built as a utopia, and Bergamo becomes a lesson in how Lombardy builds.
- Best season
- SpringAutumnWinter
- Suggested stay
- 2 days
- Capital
- Bergamo · 45.698, 9.677
Highlights
Città Alta & Venetian walls
UNESCO walls, Piazza Vecchia and the Colleoni Chapel.
Crespi d'Adda
UNESCO company town, complete and still inhabited.
Val Seriana
Valley villages, ski slopes and Romanesque churches.
Bergamo food culture
Casoncelli, stracciatella and mountain cheeses.
For you
Two ideas for every way of travelling
Accademia Carrara
Raphael, Bellini and Lotto in rooms that stay quiet.
Where it is
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