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Posted on Mar 19, 2013 in Bergamo, Cities, Villages | 0 comments

Crespi: a Unesco World Heritage Jewel

Crespi d’Adda is located 18 kilometres (11 miles) from Bergamo. It is a working-class village founded in 1878, completed at the end of the 1920s and has remained unchanged to this day. It is a perfect example of industrial architecture and in 1995, UNESCO named it a World Heritage Site. The Crespi were a family from Busto Arsizio that were in the textile manufacturing business. At the end of the 1800s, Cristoforo Benigno Crespi found the area at the border between the provinces of Bergamo and Milano, where they are divided by the Adda River, and bought the land, re-routed water from a canal to generate power and built the first part of the production facility, the spinning mill. Cristoforo’s son, Silvio, took the project even further. After graduating from university, he travelled and worked in Germany and England. It was in the latter that he discovered the Garden Cities, urban centres where work facilities and residences were adjacent. After he returned to Italy, Silvio applied the Garden Cities...

Posted on Mar 14, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

Upper City and Lower City: the secrets of Bergamo

What is that long iron bar, with different measurement units, doing mounted there beside the cathedral doors? Why does the bell of the most important medieval tower ring one hundred times every night at 10:00? Questions, sometimes trivial, sometimes fundamental, that evoke the most intimate heart of a place or an entire city. What type of questions does Bergamo suggest in people who are, for the first time, wandering its streets, the cobblestones of its many asymmetrical market squares, in the shadows of cloisters and porticoes? Every person from Bergamo will tell you that they have had to answer this question at least once in their lives: “Above or below?” Usually the person asking the question is imitating the local dialect, a difficult language even for locals, generally resulting in an unclear phrase that is somewhere between comical and incomprehensible. The question arises automatically outside the city limits because, as everyone is aware, Bergamo is really two cities in one, the Upper or Old City and the Lower or...

Posted on Mar 13, 2013 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Modigliani: an exhibition celebrates the cursed artists

A few days ago, in Milan, at the Royal Palace, opened the exhibition “Modigliani, Soutine and the cursed artists. The Netter’s collection”. The exhibition showcases over 120 artists who lived the golden age of painting in Montparnasse, at the beginning of the last century. The italian Amedeo Modigliani stands out among the hosted artists. His elongated women, without eyes, similar to archaic gods, are among the most amazing and loved artistic creations of the 20th century. Born on July 12, 1884, Modigliani is the fourth child of a Jewish family on the verge of a financial crisis. Desiring to become an artist, in 1896 he moves to Paris. The beating heart of modernity, the teeming city where the most important artistic avant-garde is spreading, la Ville Lumiere represents a turning point. Here he is influenced by Fauvism, Cubism and Brancusi’s sculpture. His works revolve mostly around the body, particularly the female body, a real obsession to him. Nevertheless, his paintings do not sell and are underrated. Phthisical since he...

Posted on Mar 12, 2013 in Drinking | 0 comments

Moscato di Scanzo, an italian passito wine you need to discovered

Moscato di Scanzo is one of the oldest and noblest italian passito wines, loved by those who are looking for a precious wine, suitable for meditation. Just outside Bergamo, Lombardy, in an area that has nothing to envy to the most famous wine regions, on the hills of the City of Scanzorosciate, 30 hectares in all, rank the vineyards that give rise to the characteristic black-blue grape. You have news of this wine right from the middle of the 15th century. In addition to being one of the rare black passito wines, is famous for two other reasons. The first: it was the first italian wine to be listed on the London Stock Exchange. The second: Giacomo Quarenghi, one of the most famous citizen from Bergamo, official architect of Catherine II between 1780 and 1785, besides making memorable the Russian city, thanks to its buildings, gave the Empress a supply of this precious liqueur wine in gratitude. Moscato di Scanzo is best accompanied by blue cheese, chocolate or cocoa...