After travelling to Rome last year, I have come back to Italy to visit two nice areas of northern Italy: Tuscany and Lombardia. There are really lovely villages in these two provinces of Italy, as well as the beautiful city of Florence.
In this post I would like to show you some pictures of Bergamo, our last pleasant surprise of our trip in Tuscany and Lombardia. We visited Bergamo after spending the previous day sailing on the Como Lake and visiting the lovely village of Bellagio.
In this post I would like to show you some pictures of Bergamo, our last pleasant surprise of our trip in Tuscany and Lombardia. We visited Bergamo after spending the previous day sailing on the Como Lake and visiting the lovely village of Bellagio.
Bergamo is one of the stunning jewels of northern Italy with a great medieval charming. I really liked the medieval look of Bergamo, with its well preserved city wall, its pedestrian streets, its charming squares and Palazzos, its beautiful churches and its funicular to arrive at La Città Alta (the old city of Bergamo).
Bergamo can be reached easily by train from Milano. To get La Città Alta from Bergamo train station you can take the bus 1 or 1A and make free transfer to Bergamo Alta Funicolare.
Next you have the most interesting places we visited in Bergamo, without any doubt, a really beautiful village perfect to spend a fantastic day.
- City Walls
- Piazza del Mercato
- San Giacomo Gate
- Via Colleoni and Via Gombito
- Piazza Vecchia and Contarini fountain
- Palazzo della Ragione
- Palazzo del Podestà
- Piazza del Duomo
- Duomo and Baptistery
- Colleoni Chapel
- Santa Maria Maggiore
City Walls
The venetian city wall of Bergamo is really well preserved and there is a promenade along the wall which lets you get a fantastic view of the city
Piazza del Mercato
Piazza del Mercato is a lively place in Bergamo. It's the first place you see in Bergamo because the Funicolare station is here
San Giacomo Gate
After a walk along the city walls of Bergamo from Piazza del Mercato we arrived at San Giacomo Gate
Via Colleoni
Via Colleoni is the main street of Bergamo, perfect for a quiet walk along its shops, medieval palaces and squares
Piazza Vecchia and Palazzo della Ragione
La Piazza Vecchia is, for me, the most beautiful place in Bergamo. The Palazzos which enclose this square gives a nice medieval look to this square
Children playing next to la Fontana Contarini, located in the middle of La Piazza Vecchia de Bergamo. Behind the fountain, El Palazzo della Ragione
A closer view of la Fontana Contarini and El Palazzo della Ragione in Bergamo
Palazzo del Podestà
Torre del Campanone belongs to El Palazzo del Podestà, now the city hall of Bergamo
The staircase of El Palazzo del Podestà in Bergamo is quite beautiful and the views of La Piazza Vecchia and La Piazza del Duomo from here are fantastic
Palazzo Nuovo, next to La Piazza Vecchia in Bergamo. You can also see the Contarini fountain in the middle of the square
Piazza del Duomo
La Piazza del Duomo together with La Piazza Vecchia are the heart of Bergamo
On the left you can see the entrance to Santa Maria Maggiore church and, next to it, the impressive Colleoni chapel, the building of Bergamo I liked the most
Duomo
Inside the Duomo of Bergamo
Colleoni Chapel
The Colleoni chapel, which appear behind El Palazzo della Ragione, is the most interesting building of Bergamo
A closer view of the rose window of the Colleoni chapel in Bergamo
Santa Maria Maggiore
Baroque look of the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo, which I found more interesting than the Duomo
Unfortunately our trip in Tuscany and Lombardia ended here. We enjoyed a lot all the fantastic places we could visit in this beautiful area of Italy, so I strongly recommend spending some days in its villages and cities.
Below you can see the places I visited in Tuscany during this trip
Of course, another impressive city of Italy is Rome and the Vatican, which I could visit last year. Below you can see more pictures of the days I spent in Rome clicking on the next links:
- Pictures of our first day in Rome
- Pictures of our second day in Rome
- Pictures of our third day in Rome
- Pictures of our fourth day in Rome
- Pictures of our fifth and sixth day in Rome
Other great cities and countries I have visited are:
- Barcelona
- Berlin
- New York and Washington
- London
- Dublin in Irleland
- Istanbul in Turkey
- Saint Petersburg
- Rome and The Vatican
- Paris
- Lisboa in Portugal
- Madrid
- Venezia
- Dubrovnik in Croatia
Bergamo airport transfersWe provide low cost airport transfers from Bergamo airport to Bormio . For transfers we offer comfortable and lux cars and minibusses and shuttle busses
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