Bergamo, Italy

On March 5th, Robert and I drove to Bergamo, Italy. Bergamo is divided into two parts - a lower city and an upper city. The lower city is much newer, while the upper city is where the tourists usually go. The two cities are connected by some tricky roads or a funicular. We parked in the lower city (since it's hard to find parking in the upper city) and rode the funicular to the upper city. I am becoming quite the fan of the funicular - they're quite a nice way to get up a hill!

We have discovered that it's impossible to go to any town in Italy (or probably Europe) and not find a pretty church to take a picture of! I don't know what the yellow building is, but I like the picture because it show's the church's bell tower and part of the dome.

It was fun to wander down the streets of Bergamo. A lot of them looked like the streets I expected to find in Italy - narrow with interesting buildings on either side. What's even more amazing is that I waited to take this picture until the car driving down that narrow street passed by! Another reason we parked in the lower city!

While the streets of Bergamo were fun to wander down, we were only able to window shop. The stores here carried designers like Prada and Versace - definitely out of our price range!

I took this picture from the upper city. I'm anxious to take pictures when Spring really hits here and the trees all start to bud. It should be beautiful.

There is another funicular that goes up to an even higher village. We were going to ride it, but when we got to the station we saw it was closed for renovations. But not just renovations - if you look towards the bottom of the sign, you will see that it is closed "because of extraordinary maintenance and renovation works"! We will definitely have to go back to see what they did that was so extraordinary!
Bergamo was another fun day trip. We are enjoying getting out and seeing the different small towns near Milan. Each has a different flavor.