Bergamo, Italy complete tour

Bergamo, Italy complete tour

00:00 intro

00:33 location

00:47 Venetian walls

01:44 main street, via Colleoni

02:38 Piazza Vecchia

04:53 map route of walking tour

05:19 train arrival, bus to top

07:05 funicular

07:57 Porta Sant’Alessandro

08:56 via Colleoni

12:17 Piazza Vecchia

13:34 Palazzo Nuovo

14:46 Tower vista

15:51 Colleoni Chapel

16:54 narrow lanes behind piazza

19:11 Piazza Mercato Delle Scarpe

19:26 La Rocca Fortress

20:37 Via Porta Dipinta

21:14 Palazzo Moroni

23:10 walk route on map

24:25 walk along Venetian wall

25:15 via Gombito

27:21 hotels

28:30 travel tips

30:00 funicular San Viglio

30:25 best vista and castle

32:05 another walking route

32:20 via San Salvatore and University

33:48 via Arena

35:14 Via Simone Mayr

36:02 Porta San Giacomo and main Venetian wall

37:46 Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore

39:03 Cathedral of Sant'Alessandro

40:19 funicular to Lower Town

41:12 Piazza Dante

41:38 history summary

42:40 Porta Nuova and main street

43:15 train station and departure

Bergamo is an ancient Italian hill-town of magical beauty, yet relatively undiscovered, where you can escape tourist crowds and step into this crown jewel of Italy.

This country is famous for its medieval hill-towns, and one of the best is Bergamo, the ideal town with piazzas and pedestrian lanes lined with shops and restaurants, fountains, lots of outdoor bars and cafes and a wonderful setting up on a hill surrounded by fortified walls, a relatively small town just about a kilometer wide, but filled with little lanes and fascinating sights, located in the north of Italy, near the Alps.

Bergman's old town is up on a hill surrounded by massive fortified walls that were built by the Venetians in the middle of the 16th century. They are so well-preserved that several of the original gates are still functional. And now the wall is a World Heritage site, as seen from above, with the Venetian walls wrapping around the hillside Old Town.

The modern district of Bergamo is down below and quite lovely, but not the main focus of your visit.

Instead, you'll want to spend your time in Bergamo is Cheetah Alta, the upper town with origins that go back more than 2000 years.

There are still quite a few of those old buildings surviving from the Middle Ages. Especially dramatic are the towers that had been fortified. Homes of the wealthy families. And now this one is home to the tourist Information Office.

There is one main pedestrian street that runs through the center of town. It's about just under a kilometer long,

this nicely paved lane is quite level. So you could walk from one end of town to the other in about half an hour. But there is so much to see. It could take you two days, especially wandering along some of those steeper little side lanes.

The authentic character of this place is seen in that small town atmosphere with local residents doing their shopping, chatting with neighbors and relaxing out in the public spaces, walking along the back lanes. You might run into some university students heading for class.