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Overview:
Bergamo, Italy was founded on a hill by a
first very old settlement in the protohistoric age, age which
gave it the configuration that still characterizes it: the
oldest part of the town, enclosed within walls, lays up on the
hill while the modern centre has developed on the plain.
Two different cable railways take people from downtown either
to the Castle or to the upper town. Developing for more than
five kilometres, the still well-preserved town walls that
encircle Bergamo on the hill are one of the most important
evidence of bulwarks of the fifth century. Celts, Goths, Romans,
Lombards succeeded on the hill, but the four centuries under the
Venetian domination are the most significant period, when Venice
and Bergamo were very close, both from an historical and a
cultural point of view.
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