Greenville chef Nello Gioia speaks with his friends in the northern Italian city of Bergamo every day. Sometimes twice a day. Each conversation, Gioia learns of worsening conditions in his hometown.

For two months, the wailing of ambulances cut into Bergamo’s soul. It knew no difference between bleak days and dark, tortured nights that came to seem endless. “The constant noise, you had to kill it ...

While Italy is no doubt the place to be right now—with travelers flocking back to Venice, Rome, and Sicily after the height of the pandemic—chances are you haven’t been to Bergamo and Brescia before.

It is one of the prettiest cities in Italy, but how many of the passengers landing at the airport go near it? Most make a bee-line for Milan, for which Bergamo is the airport of choice of the low-cost ...

'Bergamo in 6 hours' is the modest title of a tourist leaflet produced by the city itself. This may come as a surprise to travellers who have found themselves stuck in the airport of that name for ...

In March, our aim was to get to the Italian alpine city of Bergamo, by far the worst affected place by coronavirus on the planet at that time. They called it the 'red zone'. I'm used to going to ...

This pretty little city has been described by some as the most beautiful in Italy, but still many tourists ignore it in favour of its more famous neighbour. Many travellers will have visited Bergamo ...