Bergamo: Guided Tour of the Upper City with a French-Speaking Guide

Highlights

• Expert French-Speaking Guide
• 90-Minute Walking Tour
• Start at the Rocca

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Rocca di Bergamo

   30min

   After our meeting in Piazza Mercato delle Scarpe, we will quickly leave the crowds and shopping streets to climb up to Rocca, a castle with incredible panoramic terraces of the upper and lower town of Bergamo.

2. 2

   Antico Lavatoio

   30min

   We will continue in the silence of medieval streets and old market squares, to travel back in time and evoke the city of old through its fountains, washhouses and towers.

3. 3

   Piazza Vecchia

   20min

   We will conclude in the political and religious heart of the city: Piazza Vecchia, with its places of power, and Piazza Duomo, with its three churches (the Cathedral of Saint Alexander, the Basilica of Saint Mary Major and the Colleoni Chapel).

4. 4

   Stop 4

   10min

   If opening hours permit, we will enter the Colleoni Chapel. This is the tomb of Bartolomeo Colleoni, an ambitious general of the Venice Army, ready to do anything to make his chapel a Renaissance masterpiece.

Before you go

Location