Cinta Muraria and the City Gates
Extra than 4 kilometers of walls constructed by means of the Venetians surround the antique town, known as the Cinta Muraria. Viale delle Mura follows them from Porta Sant'Alessandro, near the Donizetti Museum, beyond Porta San Giacomo, the maximum handsome of the town gates, and on past the church of Sant'Agostino to Porta Sant'Agostino. From this gate, Viale Vittorio Emanuele II descends past the decrease station of the funicular and into the center of the decrease city.
Baptistery
To the proper of the Cappella Colleoni is the Baptistery, an unusual octagonal constructing relationship from 1340. It became firstly interior Santa Maria Maggiore, then taken down in 1661 and saved, reassembled in 1856, and once more torn down and re-erected here in 1898. The statues surrounding it, representing the Virtues of faith, wish, Charity, Fortitude, Justice, Prudence, Temperance, and endurance, date to the 14th century. An altar in the back of the Baptistery has a marble statue of St. John the Baptist.
Piazza Matteotti
The middle of Bergamo's decrease metropolis (Città Bassa) is the Piazza Matteotti, with beautiful gardens, parks, and monuments, adjacent that's the implementing Piazza Vittorio Veneto, with the Torre dei Caduti, a conflict memorial. Opposite are the dual neo-classical gatehouses of the Porta Nuova, from which the wide Viale Papa Giovanni XXIII runs south to the train station. This avenue and the Viale Vittoria Emanuele II, which leads from the Piazza Vittorio Veneto to the higher city, form Bergamo's fundamental visitors artery. East of Piazza Matteotti, in the busy street called the Sentierone, stands the Teatro Donizetti, and in the east aspect of the Piazza Cavour is a monument to Gaetano Donizetti.
Rocca Museum
From the Piazza Mercato delle Scarpe, thru alla Rocca, to the proper, ascends to the Rocca, a 14th-century bastion that includes the Museo del Risorgimento e della Resistenza. This museum consists of files and well-knownshows approximately the warfare for independence in Italy, whilst the metropolis of Bergamo become freed from Austrian rule with the aid of the army of Giuseppe Garibaldi. Views from the citadel preserve and the adjacent Parco della Rimembranza (Remembrance Park) cover a complete 360-stages.
Piazza Vecchia
A super and exquisite assembly of patrician houses and the Palazzo della Ragione (metropolis corridor) frame this rectangular at the heart of the vintage city. The twelfth-century Palazzo della Ragione's stone staircase and loggia of three Gothic arches (in large part rebuilt within the mid-1500s) paperwork the piazza's higher aspect, adjacent the tall tower, Torre del Comune. The decrease aspect is bounded through the late-Renaissance Palazzo Nuovo, housing the municipal library. Inside the middle stands the Contarini Fountain, embellished via lions, and some other Lion of St. Mark looks down from above. A café inside the higher corner makes a great spot for appreciating the scene.
Santa Maria Maggiore (Basilica of St. Mary Major)
Via the archway at the pinnacle of Piazza Vecchia is Piazza del Duomo (cathedral square), and together they include a number of Bergamo's maximum fantastic architectural treasures. The church of Santa Maria Maggiore, started in 1137 as a Romanesque basilica, has a stepped-returned tower over the crossing and an ornate choir. Doorways at both facet of the church are guarded with the aid of lions beneath beautiful Gothic canopies (1353 and 1360). Inside are great Renaissance choir stalls, Baroque stucco work, and 16th-century tapestries on the walls of the facet-aisles and choir. Nearby admirers nonetheless depart clean plants at the tomb of the composer Donizetti, a Bergamo native buried here.
Art Gallery of the Accademia Carrara
Reached through a stepped lane leading down from Porta Sant'Agostino is a palace housing the Accademia Carrara, an artwork museum with works by Italian artists Lorenzo Lotto, Palma il Vecchio, Giovanni Battista Moroni, Vittore Carpaccio, Jacopo and Giovanni Bellini, Andrea Mantegna, Girolamo Romani Romanino, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Titian, Paolo Veronese, Raffael Santi, Sandro Botticelli, Luca Signorelli, and Carlo Crivelli, as well as works via Albrecht Dürer and Anton van Dyck.
