Bergamo, Italy

Sam and companions traveled from Lecco to Bergamo where they caught the train for Venice, July 20, 1867. Mark Twain Project: Quaker City Itinerary.

From Bædeker:

Camerlata

The name of the place is probably to be linked to the expression (in Lombard language) cà merlada, that is "house with battlements". According to Cesare Cantú the first settlement dates back to a fort erected during the wars between the Romans and the Insubri. [without source] The ruins were found and rebuilt by Luitprando, Gothic king. [who? maybe King Liutprand? but he was Lombard, not Gothic...] But its last reconstruction was made by Frederick Barbarossa who erecting new crenellated walls gave the place the name it still bears today.

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