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The city of Bergamo is divided into two distinct parts, the Upper Town, the old town surrounded by walls, and the Lower Town, the modern part.

Upper town (also known as the city, in the past, as opposed to villages), is a medieval city, surrounded by ramparts built in the sixteenth century.

The most known and busiest part of the Upper Town is the Piazza Vecchia, with its fountain Contarini, the Palazzo della Ragione, the Torre Civica (known as Campanone) that still today at 10 pm 100 body shots (which in the past announces the closure night of the gates of the Venetian walls), and other buildings that surrounded it on all sides.

Impressive, opposite the Palazzo della Ragione, the great white building of Palazzo Nuovo which houses the Library Angelo Mai. On the south side of Piazza Vecchia there are the Duomo, the Colleoni Chapel, by the architect Giovanni Antonio Amadeo with the funeral monuments for the leader Bartolomeo Colleoni and his daughter Medea, the Baptistery built by Giovanni da Campione and the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. The inlays depicting biblical scenes made of wood of various colours are noteworthy, designs which are attributed to Lorenzo Lotto, and an impressive carved Baroque confessional by Andrea Fantoni.

The church houses the tomb of composer Gaetano Donizetti. You can reach the Upper Town walking through the scorlazzini (stairways that from more points connect the Upper Town to the lower part of Bergamo), by car (although it is prohibited on summer weekends and throughout the year on Sunday afternoon), by funicular or by bus.