Bergamo entdecken

Bergamo Cathedral, dedicated to Saint Alexander, the city's patron, stands on Piazza Duomo in the upper town beside Santa Maria Maggiore. Rebuilt from the mid-15th century on the site of an older cathedral, it was refurbished to designs by Carlo Fontana in 1689 and received its Neoclassical façade in 1889. Inside are paintings by Tiepolo, Moroni and Previtali.

The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore is a Romanesque church in Bergamo's upper town, founded in 1137 and completed over the following centuries. Its porches are by Giovanni da Campione; the interior, redecorated in the 17th century, holds the wooden choir with intarsia panels designed by Lorenzo Lotto and the tomb of the composer Gaetano Donizetti.

The Colleoni Chapel is a Renaissance funerary chapel in Bergamo's upper town, built in 1472–1476 to designs by Giovanni Antonio Amadeo for the condottiero Bartolomeo Colleoni, beside Santa Maria Maggiore. Its façade is faced in coloured marble around a rose window; inside are the tombs of Colleoni and his daughter Medea and ceiling frescoes by Tiepolo.