Sunday, January 24, 2010
Uniquely layered yet separate
There is a different kind of layering that happens in this city. In Milano there are are old buildings and ruins from each time period which has claimed the city as its home and then there is the modern architecture, graffiti, and businesses which are layered on top of that merging together to make something unique. Yet here in Bergamo for the most part the old is kept separate from the new. The old town perched on top of its hill quietly watches the busyness that races below. Bergamo alta is built on top of itself, each building seems to flow into the next, clustered not only together but on top of each other forming a unique layering of houses, shops, and twisting streets. There is no fear of losing yourself here because the old city wall snuggles this town together in such a way that eases you into a comfortable frame of mind.
Sometimes the most beautiful things are not the grand cathedrals towering over you or the world famous works of art but the way time changes a person, a place, an object making the old become something new.
The Cathedral in Bergamo alta.
The winding back streets paved in cobblestone lead to small shops overflowing with pastries, chocolates, and cheese, each one alluring in its own way.
Chocolate comes in the size of bricks here. One square is about 3 inches high and 4 inches long. It was the best chocolate I have ever had and more than I could eat...in one sitting.
Art shops were scattered here and there, even the signs for the shops were works of art in themselves.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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