Hotels in Bergamo

The pretty old city of Bergamo makes a delightful day trip from the hustle and bustle of Milan, but if Milan is a little too busy for your taste and you’d rather find another homebase altogether, then Bergamo is a fine alternative. It’s a fairly quick train trip from Milan, so it’s easy to get to a major rail hub when you want to head to another part of the country, but it’s also quite close to the often-overlooked Lago d’Iseo if you want to take an excursion to an Italian lake from your Bergamo base.
There’s a modern city below the old, walled high city in Bergamo, and while there are some hotels in Bergamo within the old walls the majority of the budget-friendly places are in the new city. There are frequent buses that run back and forth from the low city to the high city, so it’s easy to get back and forth.

Bergamo’s upper town, the Città Alta, sits inside a ring of 16th-century Venetian walls that are now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and a funicular carries you up to it from the lower town. At the top, Piazza Vecchia is one of the prettiest squares in Lombardy, and just behind it are the Cappella Colleoni and the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. Order casoncelli, stuffed pasta served with melted butter, sage and pancetta, and expect polenta with almost everything.

Milan Bergamo airport at Orio al Serio, a big budget-airline hub, is just outside town with frequent buses into the center, so Bergamo also works well for your first or last night in Italy.

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