The visit to the Lower City starts from the railway station.
Running along Viale Papa Giovanni, the main linking axis between Lower Bergamo and the Upper City, a little before the propylaea of Porta Nuova, on the left you can admire the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, together with the former nunnery founded in 1422 by the minor observant Franciscans; a little further on, after the propylaea of Porta Nuova, Matteotti Square opens up, with Frizzoni Palace, seat of the Town hall, the Monument to the Partisan by Giacomo Manzù (1977), and the statue dedicated to Cavour by Leopardi Bistolfi (1913). We are on the Sentierone, a wide avenue flanked with trees, arcades and stone-paved, carried out by the merchants of Bergamo in 1620.Running along the avenue on the left you come to Via XX Settembre, the heart of the commercial Bergamo and the favourite place for city shopping; running along indeed on the right you meet with the Donizetti Theatre with the monument dedicated to the great composer. At the end of the Sentierone there is  San Bartolomeo's, built at the beginning of the 1600's where there was once a medieval nunnery, which is surely worth visiting.

Going along Largo Belotti on the left and then, Via Sabotino on the left, you get to Piazza Dante, where you see: the Fountain, the last remain of the XVIII century fair, the Law Courts, the Palace of the Italian Bank (realized in the first years of the 1900's by Marcello Piacentini) and the Palace of the Chamber of Commerce, by the architect Luigi Angelini from Bergamo.

Going back towards Piazza Vittorio Veneto, you admire the Torre dei Caduti, a War Tower, projected by Marcello Piacentini, and, at number 5 of the gallery, the cloister of Santa Marta, an evidence of the nunnery founded in the 1300's.

Going up again along Viale Roma and turning on the right in Via Petrarca, you arrive in Piazza della Libertà, with the former Palazzo Littorio, the fascist palace, in the background.
Nearby there is  Santa Maria and of San Marco's of the XVI century, where you admire the XVIII century frescos by Carlo Innocenti Carloni.

Going along Viale Vittorio Emanuele II again, you go up to Città Alta. It’s the Ferdinand street realized between 1837 and 1857 to permit the crossing of the lower city towards the hill. At the sides of the avenue you meet with villas and buildings of the XX century, projected by several architects from Bergamo, among which Pino Pizzigoni, and the monument to Antonio Locatelli, the famous airman from Bergamo

After the funicular station, on the left, which leads straight to Città Alta, on the right you can admire the convent of Santa Maria Matris Domini of the Dominican cloistered nuns, founded in the 1200's, but rebuilt and later modified in the 1400's, preserving inside frescos of the XV century.

Going along the route of the Renaissance walls, you get to Porta Sant’Agostino (Saint Augustine’s Gate). Near the gate, on the left, you can admire  Palazzo Stampa, built in 1837 by the architect Ferdinando Crivelli. The façade is enriched with a pronaos sustained by Ionic columns in neoclassical style.

Behind the palace is Borgo Pignolo, of medieval origins, that takes back to the lower city. Along Via Pignolo you can admire the wonderful neoclassical palaces,  Santo Spirito's, Sant’Alessandro della Croce's and  San Bernardino's and you visit the Bernareggi Museum. 

Crossing the gate you arrive indeed to the Fara and to the former monastery of Sant’Agostino, from where you can go up towards Piazza Vecchia, the heart of the ancient Bergamo.