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The LycèeS.B.Capitanio gave
the students the possibility to
know very well the city where
they live. During the fourth
period of the year (2 months)
the students went up and
down of their city and were
learnt by an english guide
about Bergamo’ monuments.
The first tour was to Lower
City.
We started from the
station, the meeting’s
center of the public
transport and of the
national trains. The
Bergamo station was
born in 1845-7, and it
was the first building
trade in Bergamo. It’s
built in classical style.
Behind the hotel
“Piemontese”, in
Viale Giovanni
XXIII, there is a
house in liberty
style.
Following the path
we reach the Vittorio
Emanuele II's
square. In the
background of the
square there is the
high school, which
was the first public
school in Bergamo.
At the center of the
square there is a
statue built in honor
of the Alpini and is
about 20 m. high
In the same street
there is the madonna
delle grazie church. Its
dome is topped by a
bronze statue covered
with gold. It depicts the
Madonna Immacolata
who defeats the evil.
The evil is the half
moon and the snake
that is placed at the
feet of Our Lady. This
statue is called Statue
of the Graces.
In front of us there are
the Propilei, erected in
1837. The material
used for building them
is the pink granite taken
from quarries on the
Lake Maggiore. These
Monuments are
characterized by a
post-neoclassical style.
They were very
important because they
marked the boundary
between the city and
the country. In order to
cross the threshold of
the city people had to
pay a toll.
The Donizetti theater was built in 1897to celebrate the
century of the Donizetti’s birth. He was a musician of
Bergamo. Now the theatre is in Cavour square, and in
the centuries it has been restored because originally
was built in wood. It was used as a theatre, for opera
companies and meeting time. The Donizetti’s theatre in
Bergamo was born in the late nineteenth century with
the name of New Theatre or Theatre of the Trade Fair.
In the church of San Bartolomeo there is one of the
greatest works of art: the Pala by Lorenzo Lotto. The
scene represents the Madonna with Jesus surrounded
by angels and saints. The dominant colors used are:
blue representing the Prayer and Faith, t red symbol
of the Celts and fire and white colour for purity.
The painting
The saints represented are San Rocco, St.
Stefano, St. Catherine fromAlexandria, and 9
classifications of angels.
The artist makes suffering images meaning that
man must suffer on earth to go to paradise.
To make a painting in oil good manual skills are
requested, and strong ability in mixing the
components that ultimately generate the colours.
Restauration:
5/12/1994 - 5/4/1995
In 1732 the Venice’s Senate approved the
request of the city of Bergamo to be able
to build 540 shops in brick in order to
accommodate the ancient Fair of St.
Alessandro, an event always coincides
with the feast of the patron saint. The
project was entrusted to Giovan Battista
Caniana, who conceived a square
surrounded by trees and a fountain in the
middle of Zandobbiomarble composed of
a tank dominated by the figure of Neptune
surrounded by tritons and sea horses that
poured water from the mouth. In the late
nineteenth century, however, the fair
didn’t work anynore and most of the
buildings were abandoned or reduced to
ruins, so at the beginning of the twentieth
century is given the task to Marcello
Piacentini to redesign the layout of the
site. Now completely demolished the fair, i
only the fountain was kept, which in
Piazza Dante had originally a different
location
The major manufactured designed by arch. Alberto Piacentini, a tower of
the new civic center of Bergamo, was made using white marble, marble
and bronze. Opened in 1924, a few years after the original design of
Piacentini that had undergone substantial changes with the aim of
adapting the construction to a new feature: to celebrate the sacrifice of
the fallen eight hundred Bergamasks in the Great War; the new monument
will perpetuate the memory. The municipality of Bergamo then considered
that the tower by Piacentini, its size and placement could satisfy this need
"better“. Today, the great tower is a symbol of all the municipality and a
tribute to the sacrifice of its sons
This place was designed by Luigi Angelini in the
years'20 to solve the connection of the porch of
Piazza Vittorio Veneto with the new Crispi street
and to enhance the vision of the fifteenth century
cloister of the Convent of Santa Marta,
redesigned in 1934 using original materials,
except for the western side.
In the second half of the garden rises of private accounts Marenzio; garden shaped roughly rectangular,
with an area of 12,000 sqm. In 1973 the municipality of Bergamo provides for the acquisition of the garden
Marenzio through expropriation in accordance with applicable laws, in order to create a public park. With
a reduction of area of 3000 square meters land is purchased by the Local which subsequently built
between the remaining property Marenzio and park the wall. In that year the garden consisted of several
large trees, many of them centuries old, as Platani, cedars, beeches, American and nuts Conifers of
various kinds, but not all enjoyed a good state of preservation. Indeed abandonment where you left the
garden has helped the cosideta "natural pruning" of trees caused by meteorological events and the
formation of a rigogliso undergrowth. It was therefore expected the cleaning of all vegetation in the park.
As for the park Suardi, including the park Marenzo the municipality approved several projects to work on
the garden sisitemazione a public park. These projects included the change of paths esisitenti, the
formation of a gate of access facilitating the inflow of public and the replacement of the wall, along the
way Frizzoni, closure of the smelly ditch and finally was a plant lighting consists of light Quarata points.
In 1977 we made changes to the previous project which included the construction of new paths
connecting to ensure greater conservation of undergrowth, the removal of the lighting and the
replacement of only parzile wall with a railing. The park has an artificial lake of about 600 square meters
this once, was fed with water from a communal Roggia. In the year when the park was bought by the city,
the water of the lake was polluted and full of material melmoso. It was then a general cleaning of the
basin and a new power of the lake by water from municipal water supply. Later in 1978 were derived from
an old local park in the toilets. It was equipped with lighting the pond and the stone grotto of strain
Brembate. Following the City did build two wooden bridges and a security barrier in piles chestnut round
the edge of the pond. Many were eventually, efforts on cleaning and the provision of green park. Through
defined and detailed interventions have been carried out in the seventies, operations of planting, pruning,
removal of dead plants, weeding of paths, risemine of flowerbeds. They are followed in recent years
projects recovery of undergrowth and ridifinizione paths with inclusion of appropriate plants typical of
the tradition of the romantic garden. All this made it to the Park Marenzo a pleasant and acceptable to
users. For the initial design scheme, which leads to a strong concept naturalist / romantic, the park
presents the game for children that would be inappropriate and poorly placed. It was deliberately
preferred to preserve the natural and mysterious concept of a time.
In 1949 the municipality of Bergamo propose to the Count Guidino Suardi the purchase of part of the
garden adjacent to his property in order to put to public use. The proposal was accepted by the count,
which is made available to offer the City of Bergamo an area of 22,500 sqm. It was therefore formed the
Park Suardi, the first municipal park and that is of considerable interest. Until that time the city of
Bergamo did not have real public gardens, except in restricted areas and small greens of the city center
but there were private parks, both for the vastness of the area, both to the importance of the vegetation
more green areas. The conditions of the garden in 1949 were not particularly good as the lack of
maintenance and World War II had contributed to his neglect. In the park there were plants of conifers,
oak, beech, many of which are in poor condition due to the indiscriminate cutting of branches operated
by German troops which also had not hesitated to break down some of the best plants. Nevertheless the
interest of the municipality against the park not diminished. After the purchase of the garden the
municipality provided to the construction of a dividing wall, two and a half meters high, between now
become communal property and private remained at Conte Suardi. On 2 April 1950 the park was
inaugurated and opened to the public. In subsequent years the garden has undergone many changes to
better adapt it for public use. In 1951 it was thought to create the wall of the park oval windows in order
to alleviate the fence wall that isolates him from the road. In 1957, however, was approved the
construction of a new fence consists of a railing of the length of three hundred meters and then the
demolition of the wall in order to allow citizens to enjoy the park from outside. It was also built a cloister
for the services of hygiene and health was designed for a guardian, reserving a space for the sale of
drinks inside the park. In 1958 the municipality had built some play equipment for children, in 1966
provided the installation of a train for children who could cross the garden and in 1977 provided a
service of cars a token. Park Suardi soon assumed the appearance of a public park project and
amended in accordance with the needs of citizens. To the many initiatives we went to add the purchase
of animals enter the park in order to provide the public with a new type of attraction. In 1957 were
prepared inside the park fence with two shelters for a couple of Daini and kids of Tibet. In the following
years many animals were placed in the park as: Pavoni, Donkeys, Volpi and tropical birds. Many,
however, created problems as causing damage in summer and give off odors that makes it unpleasant
even a simple walk in the park, others, failed to adapt to the climate of our city and in short perished.
The palace Rathgeb Netherlands, site of the museum legacy Testament, has
maintained the appearance and distribution of a rich population of
sedimentation that have overlapping of its original construction in the
sixteenth century: a long story made even more readable after ' Careful
intervention restoration completed in 2000. The building was built by
brothers Zovannino and Bartholomew Cassotti trasferitisi city in the valley
Imagna in 1506 to lead more comfortable with their trade of textiles. The
project is carried out at the most important Renaissance architect Bergamo,
Peter Isabelle and decorations to Maironio da Ponte and Donato Fantoni.
The building on via Pignolo dates from the late seventeenth century, but
acquires the current form, along with the hall of honor and the internal
courtyard, with the new owner, Count Giovanni Mosconi, between 1736 and
1741. The Palace goes to Alberto Rathgeb in 1891 and will remain his heirs
until 1981, when the donation of Roberto Bassi Rathgeb to the Diocese with
the express indication to host a museum. In the last two centuries have
some decorations tempera and fresco, while architecturally as everything
remains in the eighteenth century. Although we can identify the steps in
successive centuries, the palace after the restoration has great elegance
and harmony offering visitors as one of the best preserved Renaissance
architectural Bergamo. The picturesque view from the garden and, inside,
the decorations of pull and arcades.
The white Lions’ door
The southern port,
said of the white
lions, is supported by
two couples of
columns: the external
ones supported by
white lions, while the
internal ones by two
kneeling telamons
The white colour
indicates purity.
The northern port, called of the
Red Lions, is supported by
columns supported by two lions in
red marble of Verona. The red
colour stand for corruption
Bergamo is a city characterized by different
types of stone due to the differentces in the
territory. Mainly we have:
-sandstone (arenaria)
flysch of Bergamo
- Sirione’s conglomerate.
Almost all the monuments in the city are
made of these materials. Their composition
depends on the fact that Bergamo was a city
surrounded by sea. In fact, for example, the
sandstone is very fragile, because it has a
molecular structure of "sand".
Then photos of the museum of
natural sciences in upper city
AROUN BERGAMO WITH THE CITYSIGHTSEEING bus: On
Wednesday, May 28th we were walking to Porta Nuova to take
a cabriolet bus. After leaving, the driver gave us headphones
to hear the explanations in the language we preferred: Italian,
English, German or Spanish. We started from the station in
Piazza Marconi and then passed in front of Donizetti Theatre.
Then we travelled along Viale Vittorio Emanuele II where there
is a funicular, and then we took a look at the Accademia
Carrara. We continued along Viale delle Mura arriving at the
Porta S. James and going forward, to Colle Aperto (high city ).
There, the bus stopped for 20 minutes and we had an ice
cream at the pastry shop "Marianna", famous throughout
bergamo for its sweets and its chocolate. We returned back
along the same lap, to Porta Nuova, where we hop off and
greeted the driver. We had a lot of fun despite the rain!
MARINA PERICO
AMANDA MIGLIAVACCA
BEATRICE KUSMIC
ISABELLE CAMPAGNE
JURI FAVRETTO