Bergamo is a city of two distinct, beautiful souls, a place that reveals its charms layer by layer. There is the modern, elegant Città Bassa (Lower Town) on the plain, and the ancient, walled Città Alta (Upper Town) perched majestically on its hill. To truly experience

The story of an Italian city is often best told not in its grand museums, but in the simple, sacred rituals of its daily life. In Bergamo, that story begins at the counter of a local bar with the sharp, potent aroma of a freshly pulled