Bergamo

Bergamo historic German Welschbergen or Walsch Bergen, from the not unusual Germanic Bergheim, the mountain domestic is a town inside the alpine Lombardy area of northern Italy, approximately 40 km northeast of Milan and approximately 30 km from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como and Iseo and 70 km from Garda and Maggiore. The Bergamo Alps start right now north of the metropolis. With a population of around a 120,000, Bergamo is the fourth largest metropolis in Lombardy. Bergamo is the seat of the Province of Bergamo.

The metropolitan place of Bergamo extends past the executive metropolis limits, spanning over a densely urbanized location with barely less than 500,000 inhabitants. The Bergamo metropolitan area is itself a part of the wider Milan metropolitan vicinity, home to over 8 million people. Bergamo occupies the web site of the historic city of Bergomum, based as a settlement of the Celtic tribe of Cinemania. In 49 BC it became a Roman municipality, containing c. 10,000 inhabitants at its peak. A vital hub at the navy street between Friuli and Raetia, it become destroyed with the aid of Attila within the 5th century.