BERGAMO, an episcopal see in Lombardy, Italy (ancient Bergomum), capital of the province of Bergamo, at the foot of the Alps, at the junction of the Brembo and the Serio, 331m. N.E. of Milan by rail. Pop. (1931) town, 44,895; commune, The older Citta, Alta, on a hill (I,2ooft.), strongly fortified by the Venetians, is linked by funicular railway to the newer Citte, Bassa below. The fine Romanesque church of S. Maria Mag giore (1137-1355) has a baroque interior and interesting works of art. The Cappella Colleoni, has a richly sculptured poly chrome façade, and fine tombs of Bartolommeo Colleoni and his daughter Medea, executed (1470-1476) by Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, who also worked at the Certosa di Pavia. The adjacent market-place (now Piazza Garibaldi) contains the Gothic Palazzo Vecchio or Broletto; close by is a small baptistery of 134o, rebuilt in 1898. The lower town contains an important picture-gallery of north Italian masters. The musician Gaetano Donizetti was born here. Bergamo and the surrounding district have numerous cotton, silk, linen, wool, blanket and button factories. Railways radiate to Lecco, Ponte della Selva, Usmate (for Monza or Seregno), Treviglio (on the main line from Milan to Verona and Venice), and (via Rovato) to Brescia, and steam tramways to Treviglio, Sarnico and Soncino. The ancient Bergomum was the tribal centre of the Orobii; it became a Roman municipality and after destruction by Attila, was the capital of a Lombard duchy. From 1264 to 1428 it was under Milan, but then became Venetian, and remained so until 1797. (See P. Pesenti, Bergamo, 1910.)