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Posted on Jul 1, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

Discovering Bergamo Museums

There are cities that have a very rich history to tell and for this reason some pieces of history are collected in museums, in order to safe and show them. There are also museums that try to let us know the modern world thus the activities of the modernity. Nature is already a museum in itself, as such it has to be protected and valorized. Bergamo, in additiond to its open air museum that is the Upper City, holds many treasures and it tries to show them and not to lose their tracks. Bergamo Museums are both in the Lower City and in the Upper City. One of the most famous is the Accademia Carrara, the art gallery that brings its name from the founder and that owns a catalog of more than 400 works, but unfortunately it is now closed for restoration. For this reason many axhibits takes place in other places as instance the Contemporary Art Gallery called GAMeC, wrapped partner of the Accademia Carrara. At GAMeC...

Posted on Jul 1, 2013 in Bergamo, Cities, Useful Tips | 0 comments

How to visit Bergamo by public transportation

Bergamo is one of the most charming cities in Italy, however a little for shyness a little for modesty, its charme is not fully appreciated. We suggest you to discover this wonderful city slowly, in an old fashioned way, visiting it on foot or by public transportation. The local transport service – ATB – has been running on the territory for more than a century and it offers efficient means of transport in order to tour the city and its province. Using its 18 lines, you can reach 30 municipalities but, almost all, you can move through the city that, as it is known, it is divided into a lower town – the modern one – and an upper town – the ancient one. The cable car is the most extraordinary way to pass from today Bergamo to the quiet medieval one. The most famous and most used cable car has its lower station in via Vittorio Emanuele II 62, whereas the upper station is located in Piazza Mercato...

Posted on Jul 1, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

Bergamo nightlife: how to spend your night in the city

Are you looking for Bergamo nightlife? The city is not to big, but it offers many opportunities to satisfy every taste and different needs. Both you are on holidays and you are in the city for job, you can start your evening in a right way in one of the many locals for the happy hour relaxing with friends or, why not, meeting new people, drinking beer, spritz (a typical italian aperitif) or something else, all matched with music, dj-set and snaks. In front of the Donizetti theater every friday night at Balzer, the patisserie that hosted on its table Maria Callas, Gavazzeni, Mastroianni, Gassman and many other people from the world of entertainment and politics, there is a rich happy hour as at La Marianna, the historic cafè in the Upper City. During summer nights there are open air parties and aperitif, for example on the Venetian Walls where there are open air pubs from which the outlook is very striking. In the city there are also unmissable...

Posted on Jun 29, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

Hostels in Bergamo: cheap accommodation into the city

Low cost flights are very useful by now: they carry you almost everywhere and they push young people that love to travel and to visit european cities in a short time. Often the pockets of this people are not very full and moreover they don’t need luxury, so they look for an hostel immediately after booking a flight. Requirements needed are few and simple: a room, a bathroom (also shared), sweeping, clever location and free wi-fi. Are there some hostels in Bergamo? Of course. Bergamo is a touristic city and it welcome also the youger, so we suggest you some hostels. Settled in Monterosso, the green neighborhood at the foot of the Upper City, the Bergamo Youth Hostel is a big meeting place for young tourists. There are a lot of furnished rooms, common indoor and outdoor rooms, as instance the wide terrace and the roof garden from which is possible to see the beauty of the Upper City. From this part of the city you can reach the...