Places to see in ( Bergamo - Italy ) Piazza Vecchia
Places to see in ( Bergamo - Italy ) Piazza Vecchia
represents the core of the Upper Town: it has been the heart of political power for the ages and it is one of the most popular places for Bergamo. Restaurants and cafes, having a drink, breakfast or even a romantic dinner. You can admire the building called Palazzo della Ragione, the oldest municipal seat in Lombardy, as well as the Civic Tower, a bell tower also called Campanone.
In the middle of the square is located the Contarini Fountain, which was donated to the city by the chief magistrate Alvise Contarini in 1780, while on the opposite side of Piazza Vecchia you can see the Palazzo Nuovo (New Palace), which served as Bergamo's Town Hall until 1873 and is now the seat of the Angelo Mai Library. Its incredible collection includes ancient and precious books: incunabula, books from the 1500s, engravings, manuscripts and other inestimable artfacts making it one of the most outstanding libraries in Italy. The geometrical layout of the buildings around the square is so harmonic that when Le Corbusier visited Bergamo he said you can not move a single stone, it would be a crime
Piazza Vecchia is a lovely and unexpected opening amidst the alleys and narrow streets leading to it, as well as a perfect place to admire the beauty of Città Alta. The square was originally delimited by today's Piazza Duomo and then became the center of the medieval town, where the iron bars were fixed on the side of the Santa Maria Maggiore Church show. These bars are called measures (measures) and date back to the Middle Age, when the fragmented jurisdiction led to different measurement systems. Every city used to create its own units of measures for weights, volumes and lengths, so they were exhibited in public places (usually where the market took place).
The bars on Santa Maria Maggiore Piazza della Ragione, at the end of 1100, separating the present from the Duomo's square behind it. The private houses were demolished starting from the fourteenth century. Once the square reached the size, the most significant change took place during the end of Venice, when the beautiful Contarini fountain was built. It was put in the middle of the square both for aesthetic and practical reasons (you can still quench your thirst drinking from one of its sphinxes' mouths); in the late 19th Century it was replaced with a statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi, but was eventually put back to its original place in 1922.
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Places to see in ( Bergamo - Italy ) Cappella Colleoni
Places to see in ( Bergamo - Italy ) Cappella Colleoni
The Cappella Colleoni is a church and mausoleum in Bergamo in northern Italy. Dedicated to the saints Bartholomew, Mark and John the Baptist, it was built between 1472 and 1476 as the personal shrine for the condottiere Bartolomeo Colleoni, a member of one of the most outstanding families of the city, and his beloved daughter Medea.
The site chosen was that of the sacristy of the nearby church of Santa Maria Maggiore, which was demolished by Colleoni's soldiers. The design was entrusted to Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, whose plan respected the style of the church, as can be seen from the octagonal tambour of the dome and in the lantern cusp, as well as in the use of polychrome marbles.
The façade is characterized by the use of tarsia and polychrome marble decorations in white, red and black lozenges. Over the main portal is a rose window, flanked by two medallions portraying Julius Caesar and Trajan. The upper part of the basement has nine plaques with reliefs of Biblical stories, and four bas-reliefs with Hercules's deeds. The four pilasters of the windows flanking the portal are surmounted by statues of the Virtues. The upper part of the façade has a loggia in Romanesque style.
The interior includes a square hall and a smaller room housing the high altar. The tomb of Bartolomeo Colleoni (who died on November 2, 1475) is on the wall facing the entrance. It is decorated with reliefs of Episodes from the Life of Christ, statues, heads of lions and an equestrian statue of the condottiere in gilded wood, finished by German masters from Nuremberg in 1501. The whole complex is surrounded by a triumphal arch.
Amadeo himself executed the funerary monument of Medea Colleoni (died March 6, 1470). Located on the left wall, it has a statue of the Deposition from the Cross in high relief. The tomb was transferred here in 1892 from Basella di Urgnano. The presbytery has a high altar sculpted by Bartolomeo Manni in 1676, housing statues of the three saints to whom the chapel is dedicated, John, Mark and Bartholomew, by Pietro Lombardo. The upswept cornice is supported by Solomonic columns. The altar table, to a design by Leopoldo Pollack, is supported by angels carved by Grazioso Rusca.
For centuries it was believed that the condottiere's remains had been buried elsewhere, as the sarcophagus appeared empty. On November 21, 1969, however, they were discovered in Colleoni's tomb in a wooden coffin, hidden under a plaster cover.
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Santa Margherita Ligure - Piccola Grande Italia
Lungo la Riviera di Levante, nella parte orientale del Promontorio di Portofino e nella parte più interna del Golfo del Tigullio, è incastonata Santa Margherita Ligure. Il centro abitato, ad appena 35 km da Genova, è circondato da colline ricoperte di vegetazione mediterranea sulle quali si trovano ville e giardini con vista sulla Costa dei Delfini.
BERGAMO-ITALIA LA PIAZZA VECCHIA DI CITTA' ALTA CON UNO SCENARIO STUPENDO- 24 APRILE 2011
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Piazzale della Vittoria a Monte Berico (Vicenza)
Dominare l'intera città di Vicenza dallo stupendo Piazzale della Vittoria, dove troneggia il Santuario della Madonna di Monte Berico.