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In the Northern Italy lies the Bergamo alps, the city in Lombardy where the mountains start has the name after the alps. Bergamo city has the core of the upper town (Città alta) is in the medieval massive walls (16th) enclosed with natural park and hills. This area was the settlement of a celtic tribe that lived in the town called Bergomum and was destroyed by the King Attila, the Hun in the 5th century, then belonged to the Charlemagne, King of the Franks, Lombards and Holy Roman Emperor.
In the 11th century, after joing the league and defeated the King of Germany, Frederick I , the Holy Roman Emperor Barbarossa in 1165, Bergamo was an independent township. According to the geological feature, Bergamo is divided into two parts. The upper town and lower town:
The city center of the upper town of Bergamo is located at the square called Piazza Vecchia:
The left building is Palazzo della Ragione or a Town hall and theater connecting to the tower and staircase. It is a politic center surrounding with the part of defensive venetian walls and the civic tower(Torre Civica) or Campanone (the largest bell in Lombardy), built in 11-12th century:
This group of museums is owned by the weathy family. The tower has the height of 43 m, it is told that the higher the tower, the higher status and reputation they would get. The bell rang at 10 o'clock every evening is a reminder of the curfew in 1656. During this time, this public library building, Palazzo Nuovo, was built in this square:
There is a fountain in front of the building, called La fontana Contarini, built in 1780. This drinkable fountain with water pipe system in the basin has octagonal base. The decorative motifs are sphinx made of Zandobbio (a town) marble and lion is a symbol of the Venetian Republic before Italian unification, the capital of the Venetian Republic is called the Republic of San Marco, shorten name is Serenissima.
At this period, the Visconti of MIlan conquered the town. In 1805, Bergamo was under the the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. (a French state in northern Italy).
The figure in this square is Pietro Ruggieri of Bergamo, a known poet from the town called Stabello who helped refugees to escape during the fall of the Republic of Venice:
The most important figure for Italy is Giuseppe Garibaldi, he took over Bergamo in 1859 during the Second Italian War of Independence and founded Kingdom of Italy.
As it was the important part of the Italian unification against the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, the city of Bergamo is known as "City of the Thousand" or Città dei Mille. (Thousand supporters or a network of people)
A remain part of the city gate on the upper city is the entrance and exit of the city center to the old town:
The important church on the upper town is Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, built in 1137 on the previous religious site since the 7th century:
At the corner of the building, if you travel by car, please turn left, you will see the gate to the lower city:
Follow this road until you reach the lower city:
The lower city, Città bassa, is connected to the upper city with roads and funicular:
The center of the lower city is quite busy like other metropolitan. It is hard to find a parking space there. A tourist attraction in the lower city is the Tower of the Fallen in Bergamo, built to commemorate the citizens of Bergamo who were killed in the first world war (the clock tower):
The important figure in the lower city is Victor Emmanuel II who was the King of Sardinia from 1849 until 17 March 1861 and The King of Italy:
He became the first king of Italy after the unification of Italy. The significant church of the lower city is Bergamo Cathedral. It is the seat of Bishop of Bergamo, located in the lower city (Santa Maria Immacolata delle Grazie):
It was originally built in 1422, demolished in 1856 to build the large avenue near the railway station, then rebuilt in 1857. On September 15, 1608, It is told to be the miracle of the Holy Jesus, the fresco turned to figure carrying the cross with blood. The chapel of the Holy Jesus and the fresco were replaced in 1875 and destroyed again in 1889.
The church is now rebuilt and attached to the bank building:
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