Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Bergamo, Italy

The Botanical Garden of Bergamo "Lorenzo Rota", which is located on the open hill of Città Alta, is a small naturalistic laboratory where the passion and art of employees bring together exotic plants with the indigenous ones. It is part of the network of the botanical gardens of Lombardy, an association that the Bergamo garden has contributed decisively to creating and which aims to "protection, knowledge, promotion and enhancement of the heritage of botanical gardens, nature and of the environment ". It is named after Lorenzo Rota, a doctor and botanist who first described the flora of the province of Bergamo. The 10,000 samples collected by him are kept in the herbarium of the Botanical Garden consisting of about 50,000 exicca.

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The tower of Adalberto or as it is better known the tower of hunger, is one of the oldest documented towers in Bergamo from the Middle Ages, it is located in the outer corner of the Visconti Citadel.

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The Civic Archaeological Museum of Bergamo, which is located in Piazza Cittadella n. 9 in Bergamo, consists of several sections: prehistoric, Egyptian, Roman, early Christian and Lombard.

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The Enrico Caffi Civic Museum of Natural Sciences in Bergamo, located in the Upper Town in the Citadel near the Civic Archaeological Museum of Bergamo, preserves more than a million artifacts distributed over an exhibition area of over 1800 m².

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The Teatro Sociale di Bergamo is a theatre located in Bergamo Alta.

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The Contarini Fontana is a fountain located in the city of Bergamo.

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The Palazzo del Podestà is a historic building of the city of Bergamo located on Piazza Vecchia and houses the Museum of the sixteenth century which is part of the Network of the Museum of Stories of Bergamo managed by the Bergamo Foundation in history.

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The Cappella Colleoni is a chapel and mausoleum attached to the Basilica of St. Mary Major in the northern Italian city of Bergamo.

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Bergamo Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Bergamo, Italy, dedicated to Saint Alexander of Bergamo, patron saint of the city. It is the seat of the Bishop of Bergamo.

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The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore is a major church in the upper town of Bergamo, Northern Italy.

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The Tempietto di Santa Croce is a small octagonal Romanesque chapel found in the upper city of Bergamo, near the Santa Maria Maggiore. The original building was constructed in the first half of the 11th century, though first documentation of the structure dates to 1133. Other Romanesque structures in the province include the Rotonda di San Tomè, the Basilica di Santa Giulia, and the Priorato di Sant'Egidio.

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The Donizetti Museum is a cultural site in Bergamo, in Lombardy, Italy. It is dedicated to the composer Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848), who was born in the city.

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The seventeenth-century Palazzo Terzi is located on the edge of the fortress in the upper part of Bergamo, and is the most important baroque palace in the city.

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The fountain of San Pancrazio is located on the square of the same name in Bergamo in front of the church dedicated to the saint of Turkish origin and rebuilt in 1450. Because of its shape, it is also called hyacinth bud.

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The Gombito tower is located in the upper part of the city of Bergamo, at the intersection of the street of the same name, via San Lorenzo and via Mario Lupo, the most central and important crossroads of the ancient city.

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The Palazzo Nuovo in Bergamo, home of the Angelo Mai Civic Library, is located in the upper part of the city, on the northeastern side of the Piazza Vecchia which closes, like a wing.

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The Lantro Fountain is a fountain located in the city of Bergamo mentioned at the end of the tenth century.

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