The Lower Bergamo area is an area of the Lombardy.
To know
Geographical notes
The territory is bordered to the north by the hilly belt that extends east and west of Bergamo, to the east from the Oglio river, to the south from the province of Cremona, north west from the Brembo river and south west from the Adda.
When to go
The climate of the Lower Bergamo area is typical of the Po Valley: the summers are long and humid and this increases the sensation of heat even more, creating the heat, while the winter is cold, with frequent fogs.
Spoken languages
Bergamasco is a Lombard dialect: in particular it belongs to the group of eastern Lombard dialects, together with Brescia, upper Mantuan, Cremasco or upper Cremonese and western Trentino; and differs from the Bergamo dialect of the north due to the greater presence of terms of Brescia, Milanese or, to a lesser extent, Cremonese origin.
Culture and traditions
The western and southern parts of its territory are linked - in the dialect, traditions, historical events, religious education, even political choices - respectively to the Milanese and al Cremonese, of whose dioceses they belong; only the northern municipalities are part of the diocese of Bergamo.
Territories and tourist destinations
Urban centers
- Treviglio
- Caravaggio - city of the western Bergamo plain known for having given the nickname to Michelangelo Merisi (actually born in Milan) and for the sanctuary dedicated to Santa Maria del Fonte.
- Cavernago - town famous for Malpaga Castle, used as the personal residence of Bartolomeo Colleoni in 1456.
- Isso
- Roman of Lombardy - an important medieval town, it is important for the Rocca.
Other destinations
How to get
By plane
The nearest airports are:
- 1 Bergamo-Orio al Serio Airport (the Caravaggio), Via Aeroporto 13, Orio al Serio, ☎ 39 035 326323.
- 2 Milan-Malpensa Airport (MXP), Ferno. The airport has two terminals (T1 and T2), the second is used for low cost flights. The bus service Motorway connects the airport with Milan central station in about 50 minutes, while the Malpensa Express it connects Terminal 1 with Cadorna station (red and green line underground) in 40 minutes. The buses of the Sadem is Motorway reach the city of Turin (2 hours), while the company Foxes make a few trips for Genoa (3 hours).
- 3 Milan-Linate airport, Viale Enrico Forlanini, ☎ 39 02 232323.
- 4 Verona Airport (Catullus), Boxes of Sommacampagna, ☎ 39 045 8095666, @[email protected].
- 5 Brescia Airport (D'Annunzio), Via Aeroporto 34, Montichiari (Connections with Brescia airport are guaranteed by public transport via the bus. The stop a Brescia city is located at the bus station (number 23), while that of the airport is at the front of the terminal. There are also connections to the city of Verona via bus / shuttle line 1), ☎ 39 045 8095666, @[email protected]. Cargo and Charter flights only.
By car
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On the train
The main stations are those of Treviglio, Caravaggio is Roman of Lombardy
How to get around
What see
- 1 Workers' village of Crespi d'Adda, Crespi d'Adda. Unique example of industrial archeology on the heritage list UNESCO, it was an ideal working village wanted by the Crespi family.
- Castles
In the area there are many castles, the most famous are listed below.
- 2 Pagazzano Castle, Piazza Castello 1, Pagazzano, ☎ 39 346-8628470, @[email protected].
Open the first and third Sunday of the month. Most likely the castle was built in the 6th century by the Lombards. In the 12th century the castle was occupied by the Milanese who had just defeated Federico Barbarossa. In the following centuries the castle passed under the control of the Visconti: Giovanni first and Bernabò and Gian Galeazzo after. Francesco Petrarca also stayed in the castle. - 3 Cavernago Castle. Built in 1243 at the behest of the canons of the Bergamo cathedral, it was bought in 1470 by Bartolomeo Colleoni. The current building, characterized by a Baroque style and a large courtyard with a double loggia, dates back to the 17th century. The square-plan building is devoid of battlements and patrol walkways since it was a residential building.
- 4 Malpaga Castle, Via Marconi 20, Malpaga (Cavernago), ☎ 39 035840003, fax: 39 035840664, @[email protected].
full: € 7, reduced (6-12 years) € 6, children under 6 free. Every Sunday and public holidays at 3pm, 4pm and 5pm (the visit lasts one hour). In 1456 Bartolomeo Colleoni bought the castle in poor condition from the municipality of Bergamo to make it your residence. In the castle began a work of patronage attracting important writers and artists. In the castle are still admirable numerous frescoes describing the uses and the modus vivendi of the time. - 5 Romano di Lombardia Castle. Built in the 12th century, it has a rectangular plan with four towers (one for each vertex of the triangle). The moat is now drained.
- 6 Visconti Palace (Brignano Castle), Brignano Gera d'Adda. The castle was built in the 10th century with a defensive function. The palace is divisible into three parts: the first, older is called castle and had a defensive function, the second is called Old building and is placed in the south-eastern part of the structure around a quadrangular courtyard, finally the third part, called New Palace, was built in the seventeenth century on a project by the architect Giovanni Ruggeri at the behest of the Visconti family. In the four grand stairways and in the internal rooms of the latter part of the building there are frescoes by the Galliari Brothers, Alessandro Magnasco, Giovanni Antonio Cucchi, del Sassi and Mattia Bortoloni.
Open the first and third Sunday of the month. Most likely the castle was built in the 6th century by the Lombards. In the 12th century the castle was occupied by the Milanese who had just defeated Federico Barbarossa. In the following centuries the castle passed under the control of the Visconti: Giovanni first and Bernabò and Gian Galeazzo after. Francesco Petrarca also stayed in the castle.
full: € 7, reduced (6-12 years) € 6, children under 6 free. What to do
At the table
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Other projects
Wikipedia contains an entry concerning Lower Bergamo area
