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Art and culture |
The art and culture section presents the varied tourist offer in our historical districts and villages. Bergamo is a city rich in history and art, as its province that here will be shortly described.
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Moving upwards through the valleys, with their lovely rivers and mountains, in Val Seriana you come to Alzano Lombardo, and the Church of San Martino- St Martin’s. The furnishings of the vestries were sculpted and inlaid in the workshop of the Fantonis from Rovetta and are real masterpieces of woodworking.
The main town in the upper part of the Valle Seriana is Clusone, with its old frescoed streets and famous Clusone Jazz Festival.
Between the Valle Brembana and the Valle Imagna you can discover Romanesque treasures such as the circular church of San Tomè – or St Thomas – which over the centuries has undergone very few changes. A little further on in Clanezzo is a lovely Romanesque bridge
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In the Brembo Valley you shouldn’t miss a visit to Cornello dei Tasso with its Via Mercatorum, a road which in the Middle Ages provided a link to the Canton des Grisons. Famous for its mineral water, San Pellegrino offers a spa and a casino, as well as a wonderful example of Art Nouveau architecture – The Grand Hotel. Travelling towards the lakes, you encounter Trescore Balneario with its own architectural jewel: the Villa Suardi Chapel with its wonderful frescoes by Lorenzo Lotto, the Renaissance genius. The lakes entrance visitors with the beauty of their historical centres and the harmonic effect of the villages on their shores. Lovere, on Lake Iseo, boasts an important artistic heritage in its Tadini art gallery, housing works by a variety of artists, from Bellini to Parmigianino, from Tiepolo to Hayez and Longaretti.
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If we continue across the plains, once the realm of farmhouses and fields of maize, in an environment which still recalls the past, we come across the castles of Romano di Lombardia and Pagazzano, the Rocca – or Fortress- of Urgano and in Cavernago the Castle of Malpaga, parts of which date back to the 13th and 14th centuries. This castle was owned by the great military commander Bartolomeo Colleoni who received there as guests princes and dukes, and King Christian of Denmark with his entire court.
Located on the plains, where the Rivers Adda and Brembo meet, stands Crespi d’Adda, a masterpiece of urban planning, with its large factory premises and workmen’s village, as well as its Art Nouveau buildings whose contruction began at the end of the 1800s. Crespi is a small garden town exemplifying the life and ideals of the industrial middle classes of those times and is now a Unesco heritage site. Not far off and still in working order is the ferry designed by Leonardo da Vinci and which crosses the river at Villa d’Adda.
The Bergamo area has a wealth of great and small treasures, all waiting to be discovered.
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