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Bergamo
City of two halves: the walled Città Alta on its hill, reached by funicular, and the nineteenth-century town below.
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Highlights
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Rocca
The fortress on Bergamo's upper town hill, with the Risorgimento museum inside and guns on the terrace.
Schloss Medolago Albani
A palace in Bergamo's Città Alta, with a garden behind the street front.
Archäologisches Museum der Stadt
The civic archaeological museum of Bergamo, housed in the Cittadella of the upper town, with prehistoric and Roman finds from the province.
Museo del Burattino
A museum in Bergamo devoted to puppet theatre, with glove and string puppets, backdrops and stage machinery.
Sestini Museum für Fotografie
A photography museum in Bergamo, in the Palazzo della Ragione area of the upper town.
Basilika von St. Maria Maggiore
Bergamo's Romanesque basilica in the Città Alta, hung with Flemish tapestries, with Donizetti's tomb inside.
Chiesa S. Martino della Pigrizia
A small church on the western edge of Bergamo, in the Astino valley.
Chiesa del Santo Sepolcro
A church in the Astino valley below Bergamo, part of the former monastery there.
Ehemaliges Kloster von Astino
A Vallombrosan monastery in a green valley below Bergamo, restored and open with its farmland around it.
Kirche der Heiligen Bartholomäus und Stephanus
A Bergamo church holding Lorenzo Lotto's Martinengo altarpiece of 1516.
Kloster des Heiligen Franziskus
A former Franciscan convent in Bergamo's Città Alta, its cloisters now a museum of the city.
Chiesa parrocchiale di Santo Stefano Protomartire
5.8 km away, in Villa di Serio
The parish church of Villa di Serio, at the mouth of the Val Seriana.
Nothing of this kind in Bergamo.
Routes
Al Colle della Maresana
A short green climb to the Colle della Maresana above Bergamo, steep and rocky in places, and popular with children.
- 1.3 km
- Distance
- 177 m
- Ascent
- 43 min
- Duration
- 20
- Check-ins
La Via delle Sorelle
A stage of the 130-kilometre path between Bergamo and Brescia, over hills and through villages linking the two upper towns.
- 128.7 km
- Distance
- 3 289 m
- Ascent
- 38 h 27 min
- Duration
- 188
- Check-ins
Dalla città di Bergamo all’Albenza
The first leg of the DOL walk out of Bergamo towards the Albenza ridge, on a long route that ends at Colico on Lake Como.
- 18.4 km
- Distance
- 980 m
- Ascent
- 6 h 10 min
- Duration
- 25
- Check-ins
Greenway del Morla
The Morla greenway, better known as the Sombreno cycle path, running out of Bergamo along the foot of the hills.
- 10.0 km
- Distance
- 128 m
- Ascent
- 1 h
- Duration
Lungo la ciclovia della Val Brembana
The Val Brembana cycleway on the old railway line, past the closed Brembilla-Grotte station.
- 40.6 km
- Distance
- 353 m
- Ascent
- 3 h 53 min
- Duration
- 68
- Check-ins
Da S. Vigilio al Colle Bastia
An easy ridge walk on the Bergamo hills from San Vigilio to the Colle Bastia, above the walls of the upper town.
- 3.7 km
- Distance
- 50 m
- Ascent
- 59 min
- Duration
- 9
- Check-ins
Le vie del verde - secondo percorso
A route through the woods on the north side of the Bergamo hills, following the old Vasi aqueduct back to Colle Aperto.
- 7.3 km
- Distance
- 168 m
- Ascent
- 2 h 11 min
- Duration
- 9
- Check-ins
Bergamo Urban Trail
The city course of the Orobie Ultra Trail, kept entirely within Bergamo and linking the lower town with the hills and the walls.
- 20.1 km
- Distance
- 613 m
- Ascent
- 6 h 7 min
- Duration
- 23
- Check-ins
Ciclovia della Cultura attraverso i comuni della Franciacorta
A long cultural route between Bergamo and Brescia, through the Franciacorta villages and vineyards.
- 78.1 km
- Distance
- 319 m
- Ascent
- 7 h 17 min
- Duration
- 49
- Check-ins
I segreti delle Mura
A circuit of the Venetian walls of Bergamo from Porta San Giacomo, past bastions, gun emplacements, cloisters and former monasteries.
- 5.1 km
- Distance
- 52 m
- Ascent
- 1 h 21 min
- Duration
- 7
- Check-ins
Da Ponteranica a Bergamo lungo la Via delle Sorelle
The final approach of the Via delle Sorelle, the long path between Brescia and Bergamo, from Ponteranica down to the upper town.
- 7.7 km
- Distance
- 150 m
- Ascent
- 2 h 9 min
- Duration
- 7
- Check-ins
Cultural Cycle route Bergamo - Brescia
A long link between the two Capitals of Culture, running out of Bergamo through Seriate and on past Clusane and Provaglio towards Brescia.
- 78.1 km
- Distance
- 325 m
- Ascent
- 7 h 17 min
- Duration
- 49
- Check-ins
Open route VisitlakeiseoIl Miglio della Bellezza
A short city walk laid out for the year of Bergamo and Brescia as Italian capital of culture, linking the main monuments.
- 2.5 km
- Distance
- 111 m
- Ascent
- 45 min
- Duration
- 7
- Check-ins
Giro ad anello nel Parco dei Colli
A ring in the Parco dei Colli from Colle Aperto, climbing past the botanical garden to the church of San Rocco in Castagneta.
- 7.1 km
- Distance
- 142 m
- Ascent
- 2 h 1 min
- Duration
Bergamo Bike UP
A loop around Bergamo mixing asphalt and cycle paths with gravel through the Parco dei Colli, up past Colle Aperto in the upper town.
- 19.7 km
- Distance
- 315 m
- Ascent
- 2 h 2 min
- Duration
- 3
- Check-ins
Le vie della storia
A walk in the upper town where the Roman street grid still crosses at the Gombito tower, past the Palazzo della Ragione and Santa Maria Maggiore.
- 2.3 km
- Distance
- 10 m
- Ascent
- 33 min
- Duration
- 7
- Check-ins
Greenway dei Torrenti di Bergamo
A long low-level route along the streams on the edge of Bergamo, from Via Sporchia into the Parco dei Colli.
- 18.6 km
- Distance
- 245 m
- Ascent
- 1 h 53 min
- Duration
- 3
- Check-ins
La Città Verde
A walk through the green parts of Bergamo, joining parks, gardens and the lower slopes of the hills.
- 5.4 km
- Distance
- 121 m
- Ascent
- 1 h 38 min
- Duration
- 4
- Check-ins
Da San Vigilio a Paladina
A descent from San Vigilio to Paladina in the Parco dei Colli, past castle ruins, working farms and a church with a sixteenth-century altarpiece.
- 4.9 km
- Distance
- 24 m
- Ascent
- 1 h 23 min
- Duration
- 3
- Check-ins
Die Treppe rauf und runter
A short walk up and down the old stepped lanes that link the lower town of Bergamo with the hill above.
- 3.7 km
- Distance
- 205 m
- Ascent
- 1 h 26 min
- Duration
Cuore di Città Bassa
A flat circuit through lower Bergamo, taking in the Sentierone and the twentieth-century civic centre.
- 4.5 km
- Distance
- 20 m
- Ascent
- 1 h 6 min
- Duration
Gita al Roccolo sui Colli di Bergamo
A brief climb on the Bergamo hills to a roccolo, one of the tree structures once shaped by hand for catching birds.
- 1.1 km
- Distance
- 60 m
- Ascent
- 22 min
- Duration
La Via dei Vasi
A walk on the Bergamo hills following the line of the old Vasi aqueduct, which carried water up to the walled town.
- 5.7 km
- Distance
- 75 m
- Ascent
- 1 h 30 min
- Duration
Le vie del tempo
A walk down the old suburbs of Bergamo, from the noble houses of Pignolo to Sant'Alessandro and the shopping streets by the Sentierone.
- 6.7 km
- Distance
- 122 m
- Ascent
- 1 h 51 min
- Duration
Parco dei Colli casa degli anfibi
An easy walk to the ponds at Valmarina in the Parco dei Colli, where frogs and newts breed in spring.
- 3.8 km
- Distance
- 54 m
- Ascent
- 58 min
- Duration
No routes of this kind in Bergamo yet.
The region's own picks
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Al Colle della Maresana
A short green climb to the Colle della Maresana above Bergamo, steep and rocky in places, and popular with children.
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