Piazza Vecchia
The drawing room of the upper town: the Contarini fountain, the Palazzo della Ragione and the Campanone bell tower, which still rings a hundred strokes every evening at ten.
Location
Each home has its own address
Terrazza Rivola, Domus Santa Croce and La Torretta Panorama are in the upper town, all within five hundred metres of Santa Maria Maggiore. Aminta is in the Bergamo hills, twenty minutes by car from the centre.
Terrazza Rivola
Via Bartolomeo Colleoni 31c, 24129 Bergamo
Nearby
- Piazza della Cittadella50 m
- Campanella Tower60 m
- Piazza Vecchia300 m
- Santa Maria Maggiore and the Colleoni Chapel350 m
- Funicular to the lower town600 m
- Orio al Serio airport7 km
By plane
Milan Bergamo airport (Orio al Serio) is 7 km away. About 20 minutes by taxi; by ATB bus line 1 you reach the lower town and continue by funicular.
By train
Bergamo station is 3 km away. From the station square, bus line 1 takes you to the funicular on Viale Vittorio Emanuele, which climbs to the upper town in five minutes.
By car
The upper town is a limited-traffic zone. Send us your number plate before arrival: we register the permit and tell you where to leave the car.
On foot
Piazza Vecchia, Santa Maria Maggiore and the Colleoni Chapel are a few minutes' walk away. The Venetian Walls, a UNESCO site, are best explored on foot.
La Torretta Panorama
Via Tassis 6, 24129 Bergamo
Nearby
- Piazza Vecchia100 m
- Bergamo Cathedral200 m
- Santa Maria Maggiore and the Colleoni Chapel250 m
- Funicular to the lower town350 m
- Venetian Walls (UNESCO)400 m
- Orio al Serio airport7 km
By plane
Milan Bergamo airport (Orio al Serio) is 7 km away. About 20 minutes by taxi; by ATB bus line 1 you reach the lower town and continue by funicular.
By train
Bergamo station is 3 km away. From the station square, bus line 1 takes you to the funicular on Viale Vittorio Emanuele, which climbs to the upper town in five minutes.
By car
The upper town is a limited-traffic zone. Send us your number plate before arrival: we register the permit and tell you where to leave the car.
On foot
Piazza Vecchia, Santa Maria Maggiore and the Colleoni Chapel are a few minutes' walk away. The Venetian Walls, a UNESCO site, are best explored on foot.
Domus Santa Croce
Via Arena 2, 24129 Bergamo
Nearby
- Santa Maria Maggiore30 m
- Colleoni Chapel50 m
- Piazza Vecchia150 m
- Donizetti Museum100 m
- Funicular to the lower town450 m
- Orio al Serio airport7 km
By plane
Milan Bergamo airport (Orio al Serio) is 7 km away. About 20 minutes by taxi; by ATB bus line 1 you reach the lower town and continue by funicular.
By train
Bergamo station is 3 km away. From the station square, bus line 1 takes you to the funicular on Viale Vittorio Emanuele, which climbs to the upper town in five minutes.
By car
The upper town is a limited-traffic zone. Send us your number plate before arrival: we register the permit and tell you where to leave the car.
On foot
Piazza Vecchia, Santa Maria Maggiore and the Colleoni Chapel are a few minutes' walk away. The Venetian Walls, a UNESCO site, are best explored on foot.
Aminta
Via Bassani 3, 24123 Bergamo
Nearby
- Bergamo hills trailssulla porta
- Accademia Carrara2.7 km
- Upper town (Città Alta)4 km
- Bergamo railway station5 km
- Orio al Serio airport8 km
By plane
Milan Bergamo airport (Orio al Serio) is about 8 km away, twenty minutes by car. Taxi or a rental car is the easiest way to reach us.
By train
It is about twenty minutes by car from Bergamo station. Public transport runs but is less frequent: a taxi is easier.
By car
Driving here is easy and parking in front of the house is free. There is no limited-traffic zone along the way.
On foot
The footpaths of the Bergamo hills start right outside. The upper town and the Accademia Carrara are a few minutes away by car, or a longer walk.
Bergamo
Two cities, one above the other
Bergamo is made of two halves that look at each other. Below sits the modern town, with the shops, the Sentierone and the Donizetti Theatre. Above, inside four kilometres of Venetian Walls listed by UNESCO, is the upper town: an intact medieval centre closed to cars. A funicular links the two in five minutes, for the price of a bus ticket.
What to see
Santa Maria Maggiore and the Colleoni Chapel
A Romanesque basilica with no façade of its own and, beside it, the polychrome marble mausoleum built for the condottiero Bartolomeo Colleoni. The most photographed corner of the city.
Venetian Walls
Four kilometres of sixteenth-century ramparts, a UNESCO site since 2017. You can walk the whole circuit: at sunset the plain stretches as far as Milan.
Accademia Carrara
One of the most important private collections in Europe, now a public museum: Pisanello, Botticelli, Bellini, Mantegna, Raphael, Canaletto.
Bergamo hills
The park around the city: footpaths, vineyards, monasteries, and the view from the San Vigilio hill reaching all the way to the Prealps.
Bergamo cooking
Casoncelli, polenta taragna and nine PDO cheeses: the Italian province with the most protected cheeses starts right below.