Meet your licensed guide and your driver in Milan and enjoy a 1-hour ride towards Bergamo on a luxury car/minivan.

Once in the city centre, you will get on the characteristic funicular railway that connects the lower to the upper part of the city and start discovering Bergamo Alta.

You will immediately have the chance to enjoy an incredible view over the lower part of Bergamo and its surroundings from the Venetian Works of Defence, a wall built between the XVI and XVII centuries by the Republic of Venice: not an ordinary wall, not only for the panorama but also because it goes from Bergamo to Montenegro passing through Croatia. This site earnt Bergamo and 5 other Italian, Croatian and Montenegro cities the recognition of UNESCO as a World Heritage!

The visit will continue to the very heart of the old town, Piazza Vecchia, where you will admire the Palazzo della Ragione with its curious meridian, the highest Tower of Bergamo called “Campanone” by the locals and Palazzo Nuovo, that now hosts a public library.

Your guide will then lead you to Piazza Duomo to visit the amazing Bergamo Cathedral, started in the XV century and dedicated to the patron saint of the city, St. Alexander Martyr. The building holds numerous treasures, such as paintings by famous Italian painters like Giambattista Tiepolo, an altarpiece and some wood and marble inlays.

Right next to the Cathedral, another masterpiece awaits: the Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica, built in honour of the Virgin Mary, who protected the city during the outbreak of a plague in 1100. You will also have the chance to get inside the Colleoni Chapel, a masterpiece mausoleum of the Lombard Renaissance wanted by Bartolomeo Colleoni, a warlord who played an extremely important role in the history of the city.

It is now time for a 1-hour lunch break: ask your guide for precious advice about the city most delicious restaurants!

The tour will then continue around the small, picturesque alleys and the numerous, lovely squares that characterize Bergamo Alta. In fact, you will pass by Piazza Mercato delle Scarpe, an ancient shoe marketplace that used to be also a point of convergence for the streets coming from West (Milan) and East (Venice). Finally, you will get to admire a perfectly preserved, ancient washhouse(Lavatoio), built in 1881.

Once the funicular railway brings you back to the lower part of town, your private minivan will bring you back to Milan. Take your time to ask the guide the questions