Bergamo, located west of Milan, in the region of Lombardy, is beautiful. Often overlooked for the more glitzy (and possibly more brash) Milan, it has everything. There is the lower, more modern town (Citta Bassa) – although, as well as your retail therapy kicks, you can still soak up the history of the town. Wide […]
When we visited Brescia, not too long ago, we decided to visit the town of Salò, located on the western banks of Lake Garda. I’d seen Salò on Francesco da Mosto’s “Italy : Top to Toe” and was fascinated by it. As we were so close, it seemed a wasted opportunity not to visit the […]
I suppose the name should have given it away – Paul VI – but we just didn’t cotton onto the nature of this hotel. We wanted somewhere to stay in the Centro Storico in Brescia and when we googled accommodation, this hotel just stood out. The architecture and interiors looked amazing – OK, the rooms […]
We’ve made no secret of our love of Bergamo, a stunning walled medieval town (with a more modern lower town) in Lomabrdy, usually over shadowed by Milan. Which for us is good, because it means we can hopefully keep it as our little secret a bit longer. However, we don’t feel it’ll be a secret […]
We visited Brescia a few years ago and to be honest, it didn’t leave much of a lasting impression. To be fair, we were only there to change trains and as our next destination was the stunning Verona, it had some big competition. We only really saw the area around the main train station and […]
It’s no secret that we adore Bergamo, in the Lombardy region of northern Italy. Easily accessible – the international airport is no more than 5km from the beautiful walled upper town – we try to escape here as often as we can. And in the coming weeks/months, we’ll be doing it even more so as […]
Bergamo, in Lombardy, Northern Italy (about 40 km north east of Milan) is one of our favourite places to travel to. With great transport links – direct flights from Manchester Airport to Bergamo Il Caravaggio International Airport (previously Orio al Serio) and Citta Bassa less than a 15 minute taxi drive away, it is very […]
We are currently looking into options for an (initial) long term let in Italy, specifically Bergamo. Whilst we love Italy, almost beyond reason, we know the country well enough to know that it is a bureaucratic nightmare and that any move will be stressful, at best 😉 We also know that doing what we do […]