Travel Guide & Information of Bergamo Lombardy Italy

This description page of Bergamo, in the Italian region of Lombardy, will guide you in planning your trip to Italy and help you find useful travel information about this Italian city.

Glimmering on top of high hill, the original medieval town sits, presiding over the more current metropolis of Bergamo. Palaces, churches, and huge, thick stone fortifications used to defend Venice from the Milanese, Spanish and finally Austrian, describe the città alta (high city) as do narrow, cobblestoned streets lined with houses little affected by the march of time. Below the città bassa (low city) is a more modern cityscape that began in the 16th century, home to most of the city’s 120,000 residents. Midway between is the Galleria dell’Accademia Carrara is one of the best provincial art museums in the country, and is crowded with high quality Renaissance art.

Much of the city’s architecture is an interesting mix of Romanesque, Venetian Renaissance, and attractive early 20th century Rationalist style. The heart of the città bassa was built in the 1910s and 1920s by Marcello Piacentini and features wide tree-lined avenues and a pedestrian walkway, Sentierone (the “big path”) covered with trees and dotted with cafés.

Bergamo’s old city, the città alta, is place to experience a beautiful old city with its pedestrian and visual pleasures, and is well worth a visit in its own right. Paired with that is an excellent art museum and a compact vibrant modern city.

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