Posted on Jul 20, 2013 in 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...
Posted on Jul 20, 2013 in Bergamo, Natural Beauty |
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...
Posted on Jul 19, 2013 in Exhibitions |
Some artists are fortunate, or unfortunate, in being identified with one of their works, only one, which becomes iconic and overshadows all of the other works created throughout their career. This cumbersome presence often hinders other important aspects of the artist, or perhaps the most important, his complexity. Consider, for example, the Mona Lisa, which is certainly an extraordinary painting, but often makes us forget Da Vinci‘s other remarkable works. Turner’s erotic drawings, which came to light only at the beginning of this century, forced many critics to reassess their views of the man they had thought of as simply a landscape artist. The Norwegian painter, Edvard Munch, is...
Posted on Jul 18, 2013 in Villages |
La bella estate is literally translated as “the beautiful summer”, but according to Cesare Pavese, it is that stage in life in which everything has yet to happen, and is still far enough away that it seems small and easy to overcome. La bella estate is the assumption by which the city sees itself as different than the country, without realizing that it is made from the same organisms. La bella estate is a summer in which everything is on the verge of happening and, when it does finally happen, no one seems to realize, because they are too distracted by the anxiety of having something else, something more....
Posted on Jul 17, 2013 in Museums |
With the predominance of digital media, we can lose sight of the function of museums to effectively and efficiently render the world of work, as it was defined in the 19th century, and help us understand where we come from and who we were prior to these modern times. Take, for example, Follonica, a city in the province of Grosseto, an area that has been, since the time of the Etruscans, an important center for metalworking, due to the nearness of metalliferous hills. Mining activity has greatly influenced the working life and the culture of the area. This history was given further impetus in 1834, when Leopold II of Tuscany...
Posted on Jul 5, 2013 in Bergamo |
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...
Posted on Jul 5, 2013 in Bergamo |
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...
Posted on Jul 4, 2013 in Designers |
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...
Posted on Jul 3, 2013 in Bergamo |
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...
Posted on Jul 3, 2013 in Masterpieces |
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,...
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