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Identifier: 10866333.5342.emory.edu
Title: Italy: a handbook for travellers. First Part (Nothern Italy)
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : K. Baedeker
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ay via Monza and Trezzo (p. 138) preferable. From Milan to (20 M.) Treviglio, see p. 185. Our line here di-verges to the N.E. — 26 M. Verdello; 33l/2 M. Bergamo. Bergamo. — Hotels. Alb. dItalia, Via Venti Settembre (PI. C, 5),R., L., & A. 2V2-3V2, B. I1/2, dej. 3, D. 4, pens. 10, omn. 1 fr.; Concordia,Viale Napoleone III. (PI. D, 5, 6), well fitted up, with a trattoria, a garden,and electric light, R., L., & A. 2-3 fr. •, Alb. e Ristorante Cavour, StradaVitt. Emanuele (PI. D, 5), near the Piazza Vitt. Emanuele; Cappello dOro,Viale Napoleone III. (PI. D, 5), R. IV2-2V2, A. 1/2 fr., all four in the newtown, the last two unpretending. — In the old town: Alb. e Rist. delSole, Piazza Garibaldi. Cafes. Nazionale, Centrale, both in the Piazza Cavour; Walker, PiazzaGaribaldi, all three unpretending. Beer at the Qarribrino, Piazza Cavour. Tramways from the Porta S. Bernardino (PI. C, 6) by the Via VentiSettembre and the Piazza Vitt. Emanuele to the Porta S. Caterina (PI. E, 2),
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BERGAMO. 32. Route. 181 and from the railway-station via. the Piazza Vitt. Emanuele to the stationof the Cable Railway (PI. C, 3). Fare 10 c. — Cab, per hi-., 2V2 fr. — ACable Tramway (Funicolare; PI. C, 3) connects the lower town with theupper town; the lower station is in the Strada Vitt. Emanuele, Vs M. fromthe Piazza Cavour. Fare 15 c. Bergamo (1245 ft.), the ancient Bergomum, a Venetian townfrom 1428 to 1797, now a provincial capital and episcopal see, with44,200 inhab. (suburbs included), lies at the junction of the ValltBrembana, watered by the Brembo, and the Valle Seriana, namedafter the rapid Serio (another affluent of the Adda). This is one ofthe busiest of the smaller trading and manufacturing towns in Italy.The once famous fair (Fiera di S. Alessandro, middle of August tomiddle of September) has lost its importance. The town consists oftwo distinct parts, the Citth Alta, picturesquely situated on hills(cable-tramway recently opened), and the much larger new quartersin
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