Piazza Vecchia
The drawing room of the upper town: the Contarini fountain, the Palazzo della Ragione and the Campanone bell tower, which still rings a hundred strokes every evening at ten.
Location
Humanitas Castelli is close by.
You will find us at Via Giuseppe Mazzini 20, in Bergamo, near the Humanitas Castelli site. You can walk between the property and the hospital. For the city centre or the trip from the station or the airport, check the map with the exact address.
Maison Castelli
Via Giuseppe Mazzini 20, 24128 Bergamo
Nearby
- Humanitas Castelli hospital100 m
- Donizetti Theatre and the Sentierone1.2 km
- Bergamo railway station1.3 km
- Funicular to the upper town1.6 km
- Accademia Carrara1.5 km
- Orio al Serio airport6 km
Getting here
By plane
Milan Bergamo airport (Orio al Serio) is 6 km away, about 15 minutes by taxi. ATB bus line 1 links the airport to the railway station, about fifteen minutes' walk from here.
By train
Bergamo railway station is just over a kilometre away: about fifteen minutes on foot, or a short bus ride.
By car
You can drive here with no traffic restrictions. There are paid public car parks nearby; we point out the most convenient ones before you arrive.
On foot
The lower town centre, with the Sentierone and the Donizetti Theatre, is a fifteen-minute walk. From there the funicular reaches the upper town in five minutes.
Bergamo
Two cities, one above the other
Bergamo is made of two halves that look at each other. Below sits the modern town, with the shops, the Sentierone and the Donizetti Theatre. Above, inside four kilometres of Venetian Walls listed by UNESCO, is the upper town: an intact medieval centre closed to cars. A funicular links the two in five minutes, for the price of a bus ticket.
What to see
Santa Maria Maggiore and the Colleoni Chapel
A Romanesque basilica with no façade of its own and, beside it, the polychrome marble mausoleum built for the condottiero Bartolomeo Colleoni. The most photographed corner of the city.
Venetian Walls
Four kilometres of sixteenth-century ramparts, a UNESCO site since 2017. You can walk the whole circuit: at sunset the plain stretches as far as Milan.
Accademia Carrara
One of the most important private collections in Europe, now a public museum: Pisanello, Botticelli, Bellini, Mantegna, Raphael, Canaletto.
Bergamo hills
The park around the city: footpaths, vineyards, monasteries, and the view from the San Vigilio hill reaching all the way to the Prealps.
Bergamo cooking
Casoncelli, polenta taragna and nine PDO cheeses: the Italian province with the most protected cheeses starts right below.