Why visit Bergamo?
Bergamo’s beautiful upper town, the Città Alta (pictured above), is a magical place well worth visiting. Use this website to help you plan your trip to Bergamo in Northern Italy and find your way to some of the other lovely towns and villages in Lombardia that are perhaps less well known to tourists.
The unique views of the Città Alta (upper town) from its windows make a stay at Bergamo’s Hotel Excelsior San Marco a magical experience.
The four star hotel in Piazza Repubblica in the Città Bassa (lower town) has a roof top restaurant that serves both lunch and dinner, enabling guests to dine while enjoying a bird’s eye view of Bergamo’s 450-year-old city walls, the towers and cupolas of the Città Alta and the mountains in the distance.
The Hotel Excelsior San Marco is handily located close to the funicular for the Città Alta and only walking distance from the main shops and restaurants in the Città Bassa. It is a short walk to the bus stops for the service that runs between the airport at Orio al Serio and Colle Aperto, the terminus in the Città Alta.
The hotel is set back from the main street in a big garden and has 155 rooms, either standard, superior, deluxe or suites, all with satellite television, minibar and free wi-fi internet connection. Either an American or Continental buffet breakfast is served.
Death in the High City is set in Bergamo in Lombardy in northern Italy.
It is believed to be the first British crime novel to use Bergamo as its location.
The book is the first in a series of Butler and Bartorelli Mysteries, featuring detective duo Kate Butler, a journalist, and Steve Bartorelli, a retired Detective Chief Inspector.
Death in the High City centres on the investigation into the death of an English woman who had been staying in the beautiful Città Alta while writing a biography of the Bergamo-born composer Gaetano Donizetti.
Death in the High City is available from Amazon in paperback and as an e-book.
Where is Bergamo?
These hotels are recommended places to stay in Bergamo on the basis of personal experience.
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SEQUEL TO DEATH IN THE HIGH CITY... A NEW CRIME NOVEL SET IN SORRENTO!
The Shooting in Sorrento, a new crime novel set in the southern Italy resort, is now available from Amazon.
The second Butler and Bartorelli mystery by Val Culley, it is the sequel to Death in the High City, which was set in Bergamo.
The book - written for readers who prefer the 'cosy crime' genre - features journalist Kate Butler and her partner, Steve Bartorelli, who is a retired Detective Chief Inspector.
They are in Sorrento for the wedding of the daughter of one of Steve’s Italian cousins.
When tragedy strikes an English family staying at their hotel, Kate feels she has to help.
She joins forces with another visitor to Sorrento to investigate after it becomes clear the Italian police aren’t looking further than the English family.
The Shooting in Sorrento is available on Amazon Kindle or as a paperback.
All recommendations are given by the Editor in good faith based on information that was correct at the time of writing.
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