![]() ![]() There are mapped footpaths as well as Renaissance churches. The area enjoys a good reputation among rally cyclists for its passes and gradients, and among serious climbers for its firm igneous rock. Where there is space along the main valley or the many branching side-valleys, old villages and towns stand along the riverbanks or among meadows, and a few small ski centres have been developed higher up. Each valley is rather industrialised in their lower stages, as usual in Italy, but are so narrow further up that in places there is barely room for road and river to squeeze between towering walls of rock and forest. Both of the rivers responsible pass through the outskirts of Bergamo and are accompanied by modern roads as well as decent bus services (blue SAB buses rather than the yellow ATB city buses). ![]() ![]() The Bergamasque Alps rise to between eight and ten thousand feet (2,500-3,000m.) but are penetrated by two long valleys. > Milan Bergamo Airport ('Orio al Serio') About the Bergamasque Alps It‘s equally natural and practical for a visitor to explore these mountains from a base in the city or direct from Bergamo airport. The dialect is still the Italian of Bergamo, and the territory looks naturally to Bergamo as its capital. The bedrock is granite, the forests are pine and the summits rise above them in jagged splendour. Near at hand these hills are nicely patched with orchards, vineyards and the gardens of big villas, but less than twenty miles (30 kilometres) north they become the real thing, the Bergamasque Alps, alternatively known as the Orobian Alps. You can see from the top of the ancient tower in the town's central piazza that the whole northern arc is rising ground, mostly green and woody. The high walls of Bergamo gaze southward across the plain, but also mark - less obviously - the beginnings of the mountains. With location maps and guest reviews.Ī guide to the Alps close to Bergamo, a handy budget destination From Bergamo to the Alps ![]() Lombardy home Bellagio Bergamo Brescia Como Desenzano del Garda Gardone Riviera Iseo town Lake Como Lake Iseo Limone Menaggio Milan Sirmione Varennaįind and book hotels. ![]()
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