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Extract from the Bergamo Travel Guides:
Just 50km northeast of Milan, yet much closer to the mountains in look and feel,
BERGAMO
is a city with a split identity, made up of two distinct parts -
Bergamo Bassa
, the lower, more modern centre, and
Bergamo Alta
, clinging to the hill 1200 feet above the Lombardian plain. Bergamo Bassa is no great shakes, a mixture of suburbs and pompous Neoclassical town planning; but Bergamo Alta is one of northern Italy's loveliest city centres, a favourite retreat for the work-weary Milanese, who flock here at weekends seeking solace in its fresh mountain air, wanderable streets and the lively, but easy-goi...
read the whole Bergamo Travel Guides...
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