Interesting Facts about Bergamo

Bergamo is constructed on the historic city of Bergomum, which was a settlement place for the Cenomani native tribe named the Celtic tribe. It developed into a Roman municipality in 49 BC with around 10,000 inhabitants. It was a vital military base and situated in between Friueli & Raetia. Attila destroyed the city at around 5th century.

Together with the cities like Brescia, Cividale del Friuli and Trento, Bergamo in the 6th century, grew to become one of the significant seats of the Lombard duchies that belonged to the northern part of Italy. Wallaris was the first Lombard duke. Charlemagne conquered the Lombard kingdom and thus the seat of Bergamo came under one Auteramus.

Bergamo grew to become an independent community in the starting of the eleventh century. In 1165, Bergamo defeated Fredrick I Barbarossa in the Lombard League. In 1264, Bergamo was ruled by Milan due to the riots involving Guelphs & Ghibellines, which were led by the Colleoni, & the Suardi respectively. John of Bohemia captured the city in 1331 but it was recaptured by Milan immediately after a while.

Malatesta conquered Bergamo in 1407 but it came under the rule of Venetian Republic in 1428. Bergamo and its territories grew to become a part of North Italy at the time of French & Napoleonic Dominion in the interval from 1797 to 1815. And thus the Venetians vacated the key posts of the town.

Austrian empire got the charge of the Bergamo city in 1815. But in 1859, during the 2nd Italian War of Independence, Giuseppe Garibaldi got Bergamo and it was included in the Kingdom of Italy. Bergamo developed to and was one of the main industrialized cities of Italy in the 20th century. Also, Bergamo endured extremely much less damage through World War II.