Bergamo
People who shaped the city
Residents, visitors and the occasional passing genius — each with the addresses where their story is still standing.
Visual art
Giacomo Manzù
- Colleoni Chapel
Giovanni Battista Moroni
- Accademia Carrara
Alberto Maironi da Ponte
- Garibaldi Monument at Rotonda dei Mille
Attilio Prandoni
- Monument to Francesco Cucchi
Cesare Maironi da Ponte
- Garibaldi Monument at Rotonda dei Mille
Elisabetta Rota
- Palazzo Tasso
Ernesto Bazzaro
- Monument to Francesco Nullo
Faustina Assonica
- Palazzo Bonomi, formerly Casotti Albani
Fra Damiano Zambelli
- Site of the Lost Dominican Monastery of Santo Stefano
Francesco Barzaghi
- Monument to Victor Emmanuel II
Francesco Somaini
- Palazzo Frizzoni
Franco Travi
- Fontana della Comunità
Giovan Francesco Capoferri
- Domus Magna of the Misericordia Maggiore
Giuseppe Penone
- Bosco della Memoria
Leonardo Bistolfi
- Monument to Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
Lorenzo Lotto
- Church of Saints Vincent and Alexander, Ponteranica
- Church of San Giacomo Maggiore, Sedrina
- Church of Santa Maria Assunta, Celana
Lucina Brembati
- Palazzo Colleoni, formerly the House of Luca and Leonino Brembati
- Palazzo Perini, formerly Palazzo Brembati
Marsilio Cassotti
- Palazzo Bonomi, formerly Casotti Albani
Niccolò Bonghi
- Lorenzo Lotto’s House and Workshop
Politics
Giuseppe Garibaldi
- Garibaldi Monument at Rotonda dei Mille
Alessandro Martinengo Colleoni
- Site of the Lost Dominican Monastery of Santo Stefano
Bartolomeo Colleoni
- Colleoni Chapel
- Luogo Pio Colleoni
- Palazzo Frizzoni
Battista Suardi
- Suardi Chapel at Villa Suardi
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
- Monument to Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
Domenico Tasso
- Palazzo Tasso
Francesco Cucchi
- Monument to Francesco Cucchi
Francesco Nullo
- Francesco Nullo House Plaque
- Monument to Francesco Nullo
Giovanni Belli
- Church of Saints Vincent and Alexander, Ponteranica
Giovanni Davide Brembati
- Palazzo Perini, formerly Palazzo Brembati
Giuseppe Mazzini
- Casa Engel Balcony
Leonino Brembati
- Palazzo Colleoni, formerly the House of Luca and Leonino Brembati
Sforza Pallavicino
- Venetian Walls of Bergamo
Victor Emmanuel II
- Monument to Victor Emmanuel II
Architecture
Alessandro Ferretti
- Bergamo City Funicular
Fabrizio Bertocchi
- Nembro COVID Memorial – Lo Specchio del Cielo
Filarete
- Bergamo Cathedral
Giovanni Antonio Amadeo
- Colleoni Chapel
- Luogo Pio Colleoni
Giulio Savorgnan
- Baluardo and Prato della Fara
Music
Johann Simon Mayr
- Monument to Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti
- Angelo Mai Civic Library at Palazzo Nuovo
- Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore
- Bergamo Seminary Library
Simon Mayr
- Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore
- Casa Angelini
other
Loris Francesco Capovilla
- Bergamo Cathedral
Film
Ermanno Olmi
- Teatro Donizetti
Science
Follow the story on foot
These addresses are scattered across the city. Our routes and quests put them in an order that works.