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Today it hosts the HISTORY MuSEuM RI Church Lady in San Michele al Pozzo Bianco as well as documents, mementoes DRO SANand SC E ofAltaOur(Upper railway from Città Alta (upper Bergamo). Opening ALESvaluable NO MOND (1835), S. most PCittà INATAthe OF VENETO AGE. Opening hours: October to in Bergamo). ELA SCisALamong P Oportraits; a piano Z hours: April to September: 9.00- 20.00; March and E O May from Tuesday to Sunday: 9.30-13.00/14.3020 DONIZETTI THEATRE - This theatre was items. Opening hours: June to September from S A October: 10.00-18.00; November to February: 9.00- OLF U V T I I I 18.00; June to September from Tuesday to Friday: A SA T Tuesday to Sunday and Public Holidays: 9.30named after theN great composer on the occa16.00. OD A commemorating the centeNT BO Info: Via al Castello; tel. +39 035 236284. 9.30-13.00/14.30- 8.00; Saturdays and Public Holi13.00/14.30-18.00; October to May from TuesA G sion of celebrations I ER IGI O17 ACCADEMIA CARRARA AND GAMeC I L Tbirth V days: 9.30-19.00. N day to Friday: 9.30-13.00; Saturday, Sunday and R R nary of his in 1897. A romantic monument 20 17 N With A (Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery) A 9 TEATRO SOCIALE (Theatre of Society) In Public Holidays: 9.30-13.00/14.30-18.00. VAPIAZZA IP to Donizetti, surrounded by a pond and small A N C almost two thousand paintings, collections of sculpO E I 9 12 dONIzETTI THEATrE O the spring of 2009, two centuries after its inauguraC mOdErN ANd D G Info: via Arena, 9; tel. +39 035 4284769. garden, be found alongside the theatre. The 4 in 1808, the Teatro Sociale reopened to the pubR tures and rich archives of drawings the AcIA D IA can 2tion IA and prints, Piazza cavour, 15 VIA A DELLA LIBERTÀ cONTEmPOrArY V 13 V V FORMER MONASTERY OF SAN FRANCDonizetti Theatre hosts prestigious events such A R (GAmec) cademia ACarrara is one of the most important galleries dONIzETTI mUSEUm VI lic with a rich calendar of shows and performances THEATrEDEOF SOcIETY T ArT GAllErY lower Bergamo -I (c5) ESCO Accessed from Piazza Mercato del Fieno, as the Bergamo Jazz Festival, the International E SAofNtheBEbest-known in Italy. Some artists displayed inLL colleoni Z NEDETTO by great artists after exemplary restoration work via Bartolomeo P Tomaso, 53 O via San O OS the Monastery of San Francesco was the larg- via Arena, 9 RI Raphael, Piano Festival of Brescia andSSBergamo and the clude R Titian, Tiepolo, Mantegna, Bellini, BotOZ A was carried out. Info: contact the IAT Tourist Offices. Upper Bergamo (c2) Upper Bergamo (B2) I N TA O I VIA PA A lower Bergamo (B6) est and most important religious complex in M T T V T Gaetano Donizetti Music Festival of Bergamo. TU VIA E Lotto, Canaletto and Guardi. Closed for exten10 CITTADELLA (Citadel) N -S The ERICittadella Lticelli, the medieval city; it today features two large BO CA TO TO +39 035 4160611. NEG Info: piazza Cavour, 15;Atel. VIAtheHELV is what remains of a fortification built by E DE L sive renovation work until the end of 2012, a selection SA U R cloisters: the first cloister is known as the sarI L E O Q T I A 21 of the works are on display in the Palazzo della Ragione A FORMER CHuRCH OF THE MADDALENA OL Visconti family when they imposed their rule on IE VI OR cophagus cloister (“delle arche”), the second, VI C in Upper Bergamo. Info: piazza Giacomo Carrara, 82 On the edge AofTthe main shopping area, former BR Bergamo. I known as the well cloister (“del pozzo”), offers A PIAZZA DANTE V (Lower Bergamo); tel. +39 035 399677. church of Maddalena (Mary Magdalene) is a small G CIVICO DI SCIENZE NATuRALI ENA The Modern a beautiful view towards the Orobie mountains. VIA GMuSEO and Contemporary Art Galley (GAMeC) IUSECAFFI of fourteenth-century architecture. RestoraIA PPE(Enrico SC is dedicated ALIGHIERI LAgem RGO BELOTTI RICO Civic Museum of MAZCaffi ZI N A V I Currently the former monastery houses the city’s T to contemporary art in all its forms and also offers tion has uncovered original frescoes. The church Natural Sciences) - Opening hours: October to IA HISTORY MuSEuM. June VIA GIOpening temporary exhibitions and Veducational and cultural USEPPhours: can be visited with a guided tour or during convenE GA9.30March from Tuesday to Sunday: 9.00-12.30/14.30RIBALDI ROTONDA A PIAZZA CAVOUR to September from Tuesday to Friday: I activities. Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday for 17.30. April to September from Tuesday to Friday: tions and events. Info: Via S. Alessandro, 39/b. 22 AR 13.00/14.30-18.00; Saturday, Sunday and Public M DEI MILLE the permanent exhibitions 10.00-13.00/15.00-19.00, E 18 TA 9.00-12.30/14.30-18.00; Saturday and Sunday: Contact the IAT Tourist offices. N Holidays: 9.30-19.00. October to May from TuesO variable opening hours for theVtemporary IA C exhibitions. SAN 9.00-19.00. Info: tel. +39 035 286011. 22 PALAZZO DELLA PROVINCIA (Provincial PrOvINcIAl ER 10 day to Sunday: 9.30-13.00/14.30-18.00. Info: tel. 13 RIS tel. +39 IAAdrIANO TIBErNArEGGI Info: via San Tomaso, 53 (Lower Bergamo); www.museoscienzebergamo.it. N Authority Building) - The nineteenth-century Pro- AUTHOrITY BUIldING P E +39 035 247116. www.bergamoestoria.it V I I A 035 270272 www.gamec.it. mUSEUm OF SAcrEd ArT DEGLI ABR MuSEO CIVICO ARCHEOLOGICO (Civic Ar- cIvIc ArcHAEOlOGIAl vincial Authority Building features not only numerous via Tasso, 8 A S PIAZZA UZCampidoglio 14 ROCCA (Fortress) - The (Capi- FOrmEr mONASTErY ZI 18 MuSEO DIOCESANO D’ARTE SACRA viaVIPignolo, 76 GIACOMO interesting sculptures by Giacomo Manzù in the lower Bergamo - (c6) chaeological Museum) - Opening hours: mUSEUm - (B2) OF S. FrANcEScO - (B3) tol) was located on the hill of Santa Eufemia. V ADRIANO BERNAREGGI (Adriano BernaregIA October to March from Tuesday to Sunday: 9.00lower Bergamo - (B6) courtyard and along the large entrance stairway, but MATTEOTTI After the walls were built, the fortress became OR gi Diocesan BMuseum Sacred Art) - The IA ARMANDO D 12.30/14.30-17.30; April to September fromVTuesA GA of the artistic heritage of the ProvFURof of also exhibitions IA Z an arsenal and housed the first gunpowder facLLIC which are displayed in the large OLI Museum houses works art, cult images, various day to Friday: 9.00-12.30/14.30-18.00, Saturday O ince of Bergamo, CIOL I tory. In 1960 it was fitted out as the MuSEuM C liturgical objects and wonderful evidences of both and Sunday: 9.00-19.00. Info: tel. +39 035 242839. L floor after the buildPAS LARGO PORTArooms created on the fourth OF THE RISORGIMENTO. Opening hours: Bergamo city and the local Church history. OpenA PARCO F.LLI www.museoarcheologicobergamo.it I V ing was meticulously restored. Info:Avia Tasso, 8; LOCATELLI June to September from Tuesday to Friday 11 ORTO BOTANICO LORENZO ROTA (Lorenzo NUOVA ’ . VIA SANT’O ing hours: Tuesday to Sunday 9.30-12.30/15.00tel. +39 035 387111 - www.provincia.bergamo.it 9.30-13.00/14.30-18.00; Saturday, Sunday and RS18.30. OD tel. Rota Botanical Garden) - Opening hours: March OLAInfo: via Pignolo, 76 (Lower Bergamo); C E S segreteria.cultura@provincia.bergamo.it. Public Holidays 9.30-19.00. October to May from +39 035 248772 - www.museobernareggi.it BR and October 9.00-12.00/14.00-17.00. April to September CE I N M 23 VIA XX SETTEMBRE A AND SENTIERONE E Tuesday to Sunday 9.30-13.00/14.30-18.00.V 19 THE WORKS OF LORENZO 9.00-12.00/14.00-18.00; Saturday, Sunday and Public SC H FR LARGO I TT LOTTO - Berga- Via XX Settembre Info: tel. +39 035 221040. ABO mo is home to numerous works SE of art by theTIRgreat Holidays 9.00-19.00. Closed from November to February. AN connects the Sentierone S X VIA NICOLÒ REZZARA with Borgo San X 15 GAETANO DONIZETTI’S BIRTHPLACE 19 Venetian artist Lorenzo Info: scaletta di Colle Aperto; tel. +39 035 286060. VIA Leonardo, which many years VIA twelve VIA Lotto, who spent BROSETA FO VIA ago was the heart of commerce and trade in the AI - Set in Borgo Canale street, its modest but 17 intensely active years in the city. The churches www.ortobotanicodibergamo.it 10 RO M lOrENzO lOTTO town and surrounding area. Today Via XXOSet- 23 striking rooms show slice of Donizetti and his 12 MuSEO DONIZETTIANO (Donizetti of San Bartolomeo on Tthe E Sentierone and Santo GHIS BO RI O T T O D L A church of S. Bernardino N E L family’s life. Opening A hours: Saturdays and AccAdEmIA cArrArA tembre, together with Via Sant’Alessandro and AR Spirito in the square of the same name, both in Museum) TheSC museum is located in the ENrIcO cAFFI cIvIc VIA A. G-RAM I O AN G VI VIA BROSET MBfeature two splendid N via Pignolo P.zza G. 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visit to Bergamo is a journey between two towns, one on a hill, the other on the plain; two towns that are essentially different but linked, not only by history, but also by a dense web of streets, alleys and cobbled stairways. Bergamo is a people-friendly city thanks to its open spaces, the beauty and atmosphere of its attractions, and the quality ofCASTELLO life. For this reason DI it is a city well worth visiting even without planning a precise itinerary. Our tour begins in the hilltop SAN VIGILIO town, where we can savour the atmosphere of the historic centre and its monuments, and the lights and character of Piazza Vecchia, which recall Venice of old. It then continues in search of the beautiful views across the plain and towards the Alps from extraordinary panoramic positions on top of the Civic Tower (Campanone - Big Bell), the Rocca (Fortress) and the Gombito Tower. The old routes through the historic quarters of Pignolo or Sant’Alessandro, and the road which, from the ramparts pass passing through Sant’Agostino Gate, descends to the centre of Lower Bergamo, are ideal itineraries for discovering the two facets of the city from a continuously changing perspective. But we should not forget the funicular which, on the one hand, facili facilitates NEthe connections between the two towns and, on the other, offers a different and unique way of getting to know Bergamo.
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