Bergamo Slow


We start from Colle Aperto: nearby is one of the four gates, Porta S.Alessandro, from which gate we start with our walk along the walls, which were the ancient walkway. Along our walk we pass by the embrasure of S.Giovanni (we go down to visit it if it’s open: Mon-Fri 14.00- 18.00 /Sat- Sun and public holidays 10.00- 12.00/14.00-18.00). We continue our walk along the walls and besides admiring the fortification still complete and...

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Starting from V.le Vittorio Emanuele (at the funicular lower station) we slowly walk along the old stairway which connected the two parts of the town already in ancient times, before the funicular was built. A sign announces the beginning of the “Parco dei colli” (The Park of Bergamo’s Hills). Surrounded by trees we go up along a pleasant cobble road with a gentle slope of 250 mt; in its middle the stairway becomes a staircase which...

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A slow walk along the Lower part of the town, with a guide who will accompany the guests to the discovery of unusual sites in search of stories and places that have characterized the city life in the past and that are testimony to the renewal of the town in the early 1900. From the Liberty palaces along Viale Papa Giovanni XXIII to the Theatre Donizetti or the Centro Piacentiniano. Green spaces right in the city center will welcome...

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