We had just one whole day in Bergamo, since our outbound flight was in the evening of the second day. We took the funicular up to Città Alta, the medieval town surrounded by the 16th-century Venetian Walls. We walked through the old town and returned to the city center on steep cobblestone streets. We found a water fountain with very cold water at the outskirts of the Rocca di Bergamo fortress (remember, it was a very hot day!). The older lady who helped us to operate it told that she gets all her drinking water from that fountain every day. Later, after our trip, we learned from Tomi’s Italian colleague that Pellegrino’s source spring is located near Bergamo.

The next morning started with a run, again up to Città Alta, or almost. First we took stairs of Scaletta delle More, but after a couple of hundred meters of climbing, and realizing that we were not even one-thirds up the stairs (and sweating profusely!), we gave up and continued on the narrow streets, and took the gentle downhill on Via Tre Armi down.

After lunch we visited  Accademia Carrara, Bergamos’s  museum of art collections. The type of paintings in their main exhibition was not really to our liking, so we skimmed it quite quickly, and finished the visit in the PwC Gardens. Tomi is with the sculpture “La Forza” by Chiara Camoni (b. 1974) featuring a woman and a lioness, the first piece of art in the museum’s newly launched permanent (outdoor) collection “Figures in the Landscape.”

After the museum visit we started packing and preparing for the late evening flight to Helsinki.