Posted on Jul 3, 2013 in 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...
Posted on Jul 2, 2013 in Bergamo |
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...
Posted on Jul 2, 2013 in Bergamo |
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...
Posted on Jul 2, 2013 in Bergamo |
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...
Posted on Jul 1, 2013 in Bergamo |
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...
Posted on Jul 1, 2013 in Bergamo, Cities, Useful Tips |
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...
Posted on Jul 1, 2013 in Bergamo |
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...
Posted on Jun 29, 2013 in Bergamo |
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...
Posted on Jun 29, 2013 in Beach and coast, Villages |
Sometime a certain individual’s character leaves an indelible mark not only through his life and works, but also in a more concrete and tangible manner. Take, for example, Emperor Tiberius. Ancient biographers describe the second emperor of the Julius-Claudius dynasty as an introvert, not inclined to lively social interactions, and even cruel: a rather sad and suspicious person. This is a decidedly negative perspective that does not consider his bravery in battle during his youth, carried out in the shadow of Caesar and Octavius, in which he proved to have a rare military talent. Augustus governed the empire from 14 to 37 A.D. and lived a rather reserved life,...
Posted on Jun 28, 2013 in Bergamo |
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...
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