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Posted on Jul 3, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

On Sant’Eufemia hill in the Upper City: the Rocca of Bergamo

The construction works started in 1331 when the city was been under the power of the King of Bohemia and they finished in 1336 with some actions ordered by Guglielmo di Castelbarco first and then by Azzone Visconti. In that period the Rocca of Bergamo was part of the defensive compound that included the Cittadella, which is present a part, and the Cittadella Superiore, now disappeared. The Rocca is composed by a quadrangular fortified tower and it showed four round towers at the corners. Under the Venetian Power, when the Venetian Walls were built, a big round tower was added to the Rocca, equipped with features suitable to the arming of the Sixteenth century, as instance gaps for cannons. Where the park of the Rocca set nowadays, there is the ancient medieval square tower for defensive purpose in the past. Nowadays it is possible to enter the compound through a gate placed two meters above the ground using masonry stairs and there is also the access gate of the...

Posted on Jul 2, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

Things to see in Bergamo: small city but full of appeal

When you think about Bergamo, the first image that appears is the Upper City, the most known, where history, art, charme and a good deal of romanticism are mixed together. Nevertheless, let us say something about the Lower City that always appears as the younger sister but it is not because worthy of attentions and full of monuments and interesting places. Over all there is a part of the nowadays center that tastes of black and white photo, as La Belle Epoque in Paris: an area not to be forgotten. It is not only imagination, old clicks exist and they show some carragies parked here and there and the newspaper saller. The road captured by the camera has a famous name: Sentierone. It is a tree-lined avenue realized in 1620 onto which several interesting buildings overlook and that, furthermore, lead to the principal shopping streets. At the biginning of this boulevard there is the Church of San Bartolomeo and Stefano that hold a painted board by Lorenzo Lotto called...

Posted on Jul 2, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

Museo di scienze naturali Bergamo: a source of pride for the city

Museo di scienze naturali Bergamo: once inside, you gape in front of the enormous copy of an adult Mammut with its puppy, but there are a lot of flagships that make this museum a place of excellence for the scientific culture. For more than fifty years, Piazza Citadella in the Upper City houses the Museo Civico di Scienze Naurali (Civic Museum of Natural Science) titled to the first director Enrico Caffi which reorganized the collections and supported their growth with its work. The need of enrich the city with a science museum was born at the end of the Nineteenth century when the “Consiglio del Regio Istituto Tecnico” decided to collect its own naturalistic operas in order to be accessible to the community. Thanks to its collections of every naturalistic branch of knowledge, the Museum is now a source of pride for the City of the Orobie. Not only are there exhibitions about Earth Sciences and Zoology but also an ethnography collection dedicated to Non-European cultures. The exhibitions about Earth...

Posted on Jul 2, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

San Pellegrino water. The italian style in a bottle of water

Maybe it is the most famous special guest from Italy. We are talking about San Pellegrino water. Thanks to its simple design can be a trend and create trends. It has appeared on the big screen a lot of times, becoming representative of the italian style around the world. The trademark was born in 1899. In that year the water from a spring placed in Val Brembana, near Bergamo, close to San Pellegrino, known especially for its thermal baths, began to be bottled. During the years the company has grown a lot. Now it works on the production of drinks, for instance Aranciata (sparkling orange), Chinotto and Sanbitter. It has bought others companies bottling water as well, such as Panna, Levissima, Pejo. Even if it manages more than one brand, the quality and the nature of the trademark remain the same. Since the beginning the company has shown a strong interest and it has decided to point to style and design, totally italian of course. It would be enough thinking...