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Posted on Sep 16, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

Arketipos: I Maestri del Paesaggio – International Meeting of the Landscape and Garden

Arketipos: I Maestri del Paesaggio – International Meeting of the Landscape and Garden

In the Odyssey, Homer describes the garden of Alcinous using the characteristics of a locus amoenus, an idealized place of comfort and pleasure, in the midst of the beauty of nature, in which part of the Odyssey takes place. Often this place is defined as a garden because part of its plants and flowers are cultivated, implying man’s intervention. The objective of the Arketipos Association is to promote, inform and enhance the culture of natural landscapes as well as those modified by human intervention. Together with the city of Bergamo, the Association is organizing I Maestri del Paesaggio – International Meeting of the Landscape and Garden. The event will take place in Bergamo from September 7th through 22nd, and includes two days of meetings with the most famous landscape architects and garden designers from around the world, as well as workshops, seminars, and cocktail parties in stunning settings. The event will also feature cultural and food and wine events, exhibitions and competitions, all with nature as the common denominator....

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Posted on Jul 20, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

How to get to the city of Bergamo?

How to get to the city of Bergamo?

It is simple to reach Bergamo because is placed on the main traffic ways of Europe. It is served by motorways, trains and the Orio al Serio Airport, one of the most important airports for low cost flights in Italy. How to get to the city of Bergamo? By Plane: Orio al Serio (Caravaggio) International Airport is located two kilometres from Bergamo. A shuttle service leads to the railways station (Monday to Saturday from 5:30 a.m to 22:30 p.m., every 30 minutes, fare euro 2). By Car: A4 Motorway Milano – Venezia, Exit Bergamo By Train: Railways station, piazzale Marconi By Bus: Airports – Orio Shuttle and Autostradale links the major Airports (Malpensa, Linate, Bergamo) City Bus – ATB Bergamo Transport Company Tel. 035 236026 Suburban Lines – SAB Autoservizi Tel 035 289000 / NET Nord Est Trasporti Tel. 800-905150 Taxi: Portici Sentierone Tel. 035 242000 / Railways Station, piazzale Marconi Tel. 035 244505 Bike Rental: piazzale Marconi, Railways Station Tel. 389.513.73.13 Opening hours (only from May to September): Monday-Friday 7:30-11:30...

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Posted on Jul 20, 2013 in Bergamo, Natural Beauty | 0 comments

Adda River: boundless source of artistic inspiration

Adda River: boundless source of artistic inspiration

The Adda River originates at Monte Ferro, in the Carnic Alps, and crosses the Valtellina, flowing into Lake Como, continuing into Lake Lecco and arrives at the Po Valley, finally reaching the Po River. The Adda is the Po’s longest affluent and is the fourth largest river in Italy. It crosses eight provinces and the people living along its banks have always taken advantage of its benefits with the greatest respect. The Adda has been a key player in many ordinary and extraordinary events that have taken place along with route: unusual stories and legends, epic and marginal fragments of history, and it has also caught the attention of many artists, who have found inspiration, nourishment and energy along its route. There is infinite beauty to be discovered, natural, architectural and artistic, elements that, as mentioned above, were the source of inspiration for many writers and painters. Manzoni is one of the most famous examples. “As he stopped for a moment…the wind brought a new sound to his ear—the...

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Posted on Jul 5, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

Things to do in Bergamo: discover them with the first mobile touring app

Things to do in Bergamo: discover them with the first mobile touring app

Are you planning a trip to Bergamo? Are you looking for a travel guide which is cheap and has a good quality? Would you like to know which things to do in Bergamo? SmarTrippin Bergamo has all that you need and more: it is the first mobile touristic app, very useful if you are planning to have a Bergamo tour and to know its beauties, highlighting its sights, artistic treasures, wine and food. While you walk around a city, you want to see where you are putting your feet, the people around you and you wish to enjoy your holiday in the most relaxed way. Then you don’t want to read a guide or your smartphone. Thanks to the geo-referenced audioguide, you can walk around the city with your head up because all of the content can be listened to on-location during the tour. Besides, pointing your smartphone or tablet’s camera in a direction it will provide indications on monuments, squares, bars and restaurants. A simple tap on the concerned name and you will access the relevant content and information. SmarTrippin...

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Posted on Jul 5, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

Visiting Bergamo Alta: the discovery of an ancient village

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....

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Posted on Jul 3, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

Bergamo Tour: Maresana hill

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...

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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

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...

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Posted on Jul 2, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

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

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...

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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: 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...

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Posted on Jul 2, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

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

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...

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Posted on Jul 1, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

Discovering Bergamo Museums

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...

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

How to visit Bergamo by public transportation

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...

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Posted on Jul 1, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

Bergamo nightlife: how to spend your night in the city

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...

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Posted on Jun 29, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

Hostels in Bergamo: cheap accommodation into the city

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...

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Posted on Jun 28, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

Bergamo Museum: Historical Museum of the Venetian Age – The interactive Fifteenth century.

Bergamo Museum: Historical Museum of the Venetian Age – The interactive Fifteenth century.

An interactive and sensorial Bergamo Museum that mixes multimedial storytellings and offers the history of the city during the crucial century under the power of Venice, the socalled “La Serenissima”. We are talking about the Historical Museum of the Venetian Age set up in an area close to the lift which takes to the Torre del Campanone (Campanone Tower). Mixing knowledge and games, intellect and emotions, the visitor is inviteted in a trip through images and sounds along the Fifteenth century, the critical century in the history of Italy, Europe and the world. The past evidences – pictures, manuscripts, maps and documents – live again thanks to the new technologies and they become sensorial storytellings, showing a concept of an active society and involved into the great history. This Bergamo Museum, with seven interactive rooms that put in contact the public with the history of the city during the Fifteenth century, with people, places, activities and commerce, is a real jewel of the latest generation. Visiting hours From October to May:...

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Posted on Jun 28, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

Bergamo Tourist Guide: Smartrippin is available, the app about Bergamo.

Bergamo Tourist Guide: Smartrippin is available, the app about Bergamo.

Tablet, iPad, iPhone and smartphone have become the travel mates of the tourists around the world. People who own them can’t help travelling without some app which help to find the treasures and the splendors of a city. Smartrippin has just been born: highly innovative Bergamo Tourist Guide. Image to be in front of a church, a palace, a monument, a place, an outlook and to use your smartphone as a personal multilingual tourist guide. You will be able to geo-localize you and your position, listen to the audio-guide, look at the pictures, share digital contents with other users, recall history and also to search for information about places around, where to go nearby for lunch, accomodation, customized and geo-localized tours,always updated information. Your visit will be more interesting and exciting, without bear the weight of guidebooks and paper maps. Try to search on Google “Bergamo Tourist Guide”: you will find Smartrippin, the first tourist app that helps you to visit Bergamo, its splendors, its tourist, artistic and wine...

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Posted on Jun 28, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

Lower Bergamo: a tour into the throbbing core of the city of Bergamo.

Lower Bergamo: a tour into the throbbing core of the city of Bergamo.

The center of Lower Bergamo, throbbing core of the commerce of the city, was planned by Marcello Piacentini. It extends across the area of the old fair of Sant’Alessandro and it start from the so called Sentierone: a bright tree-lined avenue flanked by porchs and stone cobbled, place of the city promenade. In front of the Sentierone there is the Donizetti theater, one of the most charming theater in Italy. Before start to walk along Via XX Settembre, the center of shopping, a tour in the near Via Torquato Tasso is reccomended. This street starts near the church of San Bartolomeo which si famous beacuse there is an opera called Pala Martinengo painted by Lorenzo Lotto in 1516 inside it. At the end of Via Tasso there is Piazzetta Santo Spirito. The church of Santo Spirito, in the square of the same name, shows ten chapels on the side of its only-one nave. Some of them guards artworks of considerable value, as a polyptich by Bergognone and a picture...

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Posted on Jun 27, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

Piazza Vecchia Bergamo: the core of the old city

Piazza Vecchia Bergamo: the core of the old city

The Upper City has a core and that is Piazza Vecchia. It is not too big, but it is adorned by artistic beauties and places of historical interest as a pearl necklace would do. It is difficult to stop the gaze on only one of the corner of the square, rectangular of course, but divided into two parts by the Palazzo della Ragione. It was built after the XII century and it was a political center of the city. There is a cloister on the ground, supported by columns and decorated capitals on which archs are placed and on the floor a sundial was realized. Outside the building you can still see part of the swallow-tailed form battlements belonging to the roof. There is a staircase facing Piazza Vecchia and it leads to the first floor where there is a large room called “Sala delle Capriate”. In this place inscriptions, sculptures and some frescos are visible, some of them painted by Bramante. Next to the Palazzo della Ragione there...

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Posted on Jun 25, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

Holidays in Bergamo: Smartrippin, the tourist App to discover it

Holidays in Bergamo: Smartrippin, the tourist App to discover it

Smartrippin, the new tourist app about Bergamo, is seen as a new way to analyze and discover the cultural and artistic treasures of the city. A usable and adaptable guide, perfect helper during your holidays in Bergamo. The app is highly innovative and offers contents and incitements through different media. You will be able to read information and also watch a photogallery or listen pieces as if you were endowed with an audio-guide. Maps, grafic information and interactive words would allow you to know more news and curiosities and they would show in a complete way the places you are visiting. The augmented reality is very important. It is a screen that, thanks to the camera of your mobile or tablet, makes you able to see what is in front of you showing the points of interest in that area. There is a section dedicated to different tours: for those who travel with children, for those who are in a couple, for those who want to follow the lifestyle...

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Posted on Jun 25, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

Discovering the most important monuments of Bergamo city

Discovering the most important monuments of Bergamo city

Bergamo city hosts many museums: the museum of modern art and the historical botanical garden, but there are a lot of open air museums that deserve to be known, visited and photographed. Starting from the Lower City, on the principal avenue called Papa Giovanni XXIII, the Propilaea of Porta Nuova are clearly visible. They are two twin buildings used as a monumental gate built in 1837 in Classical style. A little further, going on to the Upper City, there is the avenue called Sentierone, a paved boulevard on which some wonderful monuments overlook. On one side there is the civic theater dedicated to Gaetano Donizetti, and next to it a fountain, depicting the composer, is put. The church of San Bartolomeo and Santo Stefano is close to the theater and it stores the Pala Martinengo, a wood panel painted by Lorenzo Lotto. On the other side the war memorial entitled to Partisans made by the artist from Bergamo Giacomo Manzù in the Twentieth century and the the high memorial...

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