CATHEDRAL, Museum

If you like taking a trip back in history, you’ll enjoy the Cathedral Museum. During the recent work to renew the church’s heating system, a number of findings related to the building’s history were brought to light, and in 2012, the underground area was fitted out and opened to the public.

The museum offers a chance to explore the episodes that have marked the history of the place, reconstructed with precious art and liturgical objects, plunging the visitor right into the beautiful, sacred atmosphere of this centuries-old Cathedral.

Incredible though it seems, hidden beneath the floor of the Cathedral was an authentic glimpse of Bergamo’s history, which can now be reconstructed by following the visitor route. The work of the archeologists has even brought back to life the urban fabric of the Roman age, at the center of which the first Christian church was built: surprisingly, it was a strikingly large basilica, at least 45 meters long and 24 meters wide. If you pay close attention along the visitor route, you’ll notice the mosaic floor of the original church, laid on top of the floors of earlier Roman dwellings.

The sarcophagi and tombs you’ll encounter along the way are a reminder that churches were once used as places of burial....