BERGAMO, ancient galica city pertaining to Romans, godos and longobardos. After the communal age step? orio visconteo and, 1428, I voluntarily enter to comprise from the Veneciana Republic to which permanecio faithful until the aim. Founded on a hill (the present high Bergamo), extendio soon by the plain. Crossed the low city by the stroll Vittorio Emanuele, we raised the discharge, entering the enclosure of formidable venecianas walls of Door San Agustin. The first monument which we found in this prodigious nucleus located in a hill of splendid position is the facade of San Agustin, in arenaria stone of the century XV whose noble austerity is lightened by two wonderful large windows to Cuadrifora. Next to the chapel is delicate Protiro of the three hundred of Santa Maria Greater, powerful romanica church (century XII) with baroque interior. To the left, in the seat, the Cathedral and the pretty Batisterio (1340). One rises towards the walls of Santa Grata, with pretty panorama on hills, and the near Canale suburb. By the walls of San Giacomo he becomes towards Door San Agustin descending throughout the streets Pignolo and Santo Tomas, until the neoclassic Palace where the Carrara Academy has its seat, one of the greater pinacotecas lombardas, with works of great bergamascos with Ghislandi and Baschenis, and soon Lotto, Moroni, Montagna, Carpaccio, Bellini, Mantegna, Tura, Foppa, Perusino, Angelical, Tintoretto, Brughuel the Old one, Clouet, Luca de Leida, Durero, Roger goes to der Ayden, Guardi, Tiepolo, etc.
In the street of Santo Tomas, corner with the one of Pignolo, the church (six hundred) of S. Alexander de la Cruz, with pictures of the Lotto, L. Coast, Ricci, Bassano. Other important fabrics of Lotto, are in San Bernardino, S. Spirito and San Bartholomew. When leaving Bergamo towards the lake of Iseo Seriate, old village comes immediately on the shore of the Serious one; later we found Tresdore, with important fresh of Lotto in the Oratorio of the Suardi villa. We later found the romantic Lake of Endine, after which it is arrived (km 41) at Lovere in the top of the Lake of Iseo from where we will be able to begin to descend throughout the Eastern shore.
Together Pisogne, the Sanctuary of Santa Maria of the Snow with fresh of Romanino (1540). The highway now descends between wonderful landscapes towards Punta alle Croci Bergamasche (End of Cruces Bergamascas) and pays for the lake; of Sulzano podra to go over Monte Isola (the greater island of the Italian lakes) that occupies, with its soft conic section, the center of the lake. In Iseo (21 km of Pisogne) the highway is taken that in 17 kilometers of route takes BRESCIA.