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Posted on Jul 5, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

Visiting Bergamo Alta: the discovery of an ancient village

Sorrounded by its Walls, Bergamo Alta astonishes with its ancient atmosphere that you breathe, in addition to the fantastic monuments it contents. Visiting Bergamo Alta in order to rediscover past emotions, to listen to the one hundred tolls that the Campanone strikes at 10 p.m. but in the past they had signalled the closing time of the gates of the city. You can reach Bergamo Alta by the cable car that from the Lower City, the modern one, leads up to the Upper City directly to Mercato delle Scarpe. From that point you can go through one of the alleys that twist into the burg and arrive at the Rocca. It was built for defensive purposes on Sant’Eufemia hill from 1331 to 1336. Nowadays the Rocca offers to the tourists a breathe-taking overlook on the city and it is possible to see also the hill of the Orobie Alps. A place that wonders you and inspires artists, first of all the composer Gaetano Donizetti which was born in Bergamo in 1797....

Posted on Jul 4, 2013 in Designers | 0 comments

Joe Colombo: design that lies between pure art, irony and utopian dream

An iconic art form such as the cinema often makes use of other forms of creativity to support its persuasiveness. Just consider characters such as Agent 007, James Bond, who has always been associated with fast cars and sharp clothing, accessories inspired by design and fashion. In one scene in which the star was still being played by Sean Connery, several Bonds ago, His Majesty’s agent turns with his sly smile and sits down on a chair upholstered with alluring, padded shapes. It was the Elda chair, designed by Colombo in 1963. Joe Colombo was one of the stars of Italian design who, beginning in the 1960s, made a name for themselves and for Italy throughout the world. He was the son of a businessman, and studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, starting out his career as a painter. He became part of the “Movimento Nucleare”, founded by Enrico Baj and Sergio Dangelo. After having produced experimental works that were somewhere between surrealism and...

Posted on Jul 3, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

Bergamo Tour: Maresana hill

If anyone has doubts about, also in the core of the hard-working Lombardy it is possible to pass from the blacktop of the city to the green hill in few minutes: it is shown by some itinerary around Bergamo. One of them leads to Maresana, a hill in Ponteranica a municipalità neighbouring the urban center. The hill, 546 meters high, was covered by chestnut tree in the past. Nowadays is filled with woods and vineyards and it is part of the Parco dei Colli di Bergamo, the third natural park in size of Italy. On one of the panoramic viwepoint is put the Church of San Marco, born in 1619 and today used as a community and learning center for the visitors who want to discover the flora and the fauna of that area. The highest point of the mountain of which the hill is part is called Canto Alto. It is 1146 meters high and it is possible to reach it following a route in whose beginning is...

Posted on Jul 3, 2013 in Masterpieces | 0 comments

Pinturicchio in Spello: a masterpiece that merits rediscovering in the heart of Umbria

We are in the heart of Italy, surrounded by rolling hills, groves of olive trees, roads that clamber around curves and other sights that constitute one of the most extraordinary landscapes in the peninsula – Umbria. Dominated by the outline of Mount Subasio, Spello is located between the plain and hills and its character reflects both its Medieval and Renaissance history, a dual essence that has a compelling charm. Walking among the city’s defensive walls, narrow alleyways, mullioned windows, tower-houses, and finally, heading down one of its main streets, you will find Santa Maria Maggiore, the town’s most significant church. If you enter it without reading up on it, by chance, you will find the masterpiece known as the Baglioni Chapel in the center, which will amaze you for two reasons. The first is the frescoes that decorate its walls, the second for the almost complete lack of information or promotion for one of the greatest, and yet most overlooked works from the Umbrian Renaissance. The artist, Pinturicchio, was...