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addPhoto('images/bergamo1.jpg',"In the lower city, walking towards the Upper City,  up ahead.");
addPhoto('images/bergamo2.jpg',"Bergamo occupies the site of the ancient town of Bergomum, which was a Roman municipality. It was destroyed by Attila in the 5th century. Between 1264 and 1428 the town was ruled by Milan, but passed to Venetian control until 1797. The Venetians fortified the higher portion of the town.");
addPhoto('images/bergamo3.jpg',"The view of Bergamo and the surrounding area, from just inside the wall of the Upper City.");
addPhoto('images/bergamo4.jpg',"Looking down over the wall from the Upper City.");
addPhoto('images/bergamo5.jpg',"Walking up the narrow streets of the Upper City.");
addPhoto('images/bergamo6.jpg',"Shops and cafes along the streets of the Upper City.");
addPhoto('images/bergamo7.jpg',"The main piazza, Piazza Vecchia, in the Upper City of Bergamo.");
addPhoto('images/bergamo8.jpg',"The Colleoni Chapel, from the Piazza Vecchia.Commissioned by Bartolomeo Colleoni as his funeral chapel and built by Amadeo between 1472 and 1476 in the Ancient Sacristy of St. Maria Maggiore, it is one of the most important monuments of the Lombard Renaissance. The Chapel contains sarcophagus of Medea, the condottieres daughter, also made by Amadeo, carried here from The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Basella near Urgnano in the 19th century. In the cupola there are frescos by G.B. Tiepolo.");
addPhoto('images/bergamo9.jpg',"Piazza Vecchia was built in the first half of the 14th century and, in the center, it contains the fountain given by the Podestà Contarini in 1780. Some of the most characteristic buildings of the Town face the Piazza Vecchia. Palazzo della Ragione is characterized by two beautiful ogival three-mullioned windows and by the large central window surmounted by St. Marks Lion");
addPhoto('images/bergamo10.jpg',"The Contarini Fountain was built in the 18th century and stands in the middle of the Piazza Vecchia. On both sides, it has womens faces, from which water is distributed. In 1885, the fountain had been removed to make way for another monument. But without the fountain, the Piazza Vecchia had lost lots of its charm, so in 1922 the people of Bergamo decided to put it back in its central position.");
addPhoto('images/bergamo11.jpg',"A small cafe in the Piazza Vecchia.");
addPhoto('images/bergamo12.jpg',"A sundial built into the ground in the piazza.");
addPhoto('images/bergamo13.jpg',"The Chapel is joined to the northern part of the Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica and is one of the pearls of the Lombard Renaissance. It was built in 1472 by Bartolomeo Colleoni as a funeral chapel for himself. ");
addPhoto('images/bergamo14.jpg',"Another church in the Piazza, but was closed for repairs.");
addPhoto('images/bergamo15.jpg',"One of the entrances to the large Romanesque church of S Maria Maggiore");
addPhoto('images/bergamo16.jpg',"Another view of the outside of Santa Maria Maggiore.  Once inside, the size is staggering, totally contradicting what it seems like from the outside.");
addPhoto('images/bergamo17.jpg',"Part of the inside ceiling of S Maria Maggiore");
addPhoto('images/bergamo18.jpg',"Inside the basilica Santa Maria");
addPhoto('images/bergamo19.jpg',"Looking towards the altar from the back");
addPhoto('images/bergamo20.jpg',"The amazing roof above the altar. Those are not paintings, but reliefs. The detail is exquisite.");
addPhoto('images/bergamo21.jpg',"Another shot of the ceiling.");
addPhoto('images/bergamo22.jpg',"One of the enormous tapestries hanging in the basilica.");
addPhoto('images/bergamo24.jpg',"The wooden confessional was produced in 1705 by Andrea Fontani");
addPhoto('images/bergamo25.jpg',"The babtistry located next to the basilica and the Colleoni Chapel.");
addPhoto('images/bergamo26.jpg',"More from the inside of the basilica.");
addPhoto('images/bergamo27.jpg',"One of the several cafes along the streets of the Upper City. The pizzas in the window were just slightly better than Dominos. Not! They were amazing looking, and tasted as good as they looked.");
addPhoto('images/bergamo28.jpg',"Another view of the surrounding area from the Upper City.");
addPhoto('images/bergamo29.jpg',"The Lower City of Bergamo.");
addPhoto('images/bergamo30.jpg',"A view of the wall surrounding the Upper City.");
addPhoto('images/bergamo31.jpg',"The view of Bergamo over the wall");
addPhoto('images/bergamo32.jpg',"One of the main gate entrances to the Upper City.");
addPhoto('images/bergamo33.jpg',"Another view of the gate and the road leading up to it.");
addPhoto('images/bergamo34.jpg',"Downtown Bergamo.");
addPhoto('images/bergamo35.jpg',"Walking down the narrow street headed to the Lower City.");