A man stands in a corner pub lit by a camping lamp during a power cut in Placa de l'Ajuntament in the small town of Premia de Mar, near Barcelona. Jan-Uwe Ronneburger/dpa A power cut in the northern ...

GREENVILLE — On the surface, it’s an odd pairing. There’s Bergamo, Italy, an ancient Roman city nestled in the foothills of the Alps surrounded by medieval fortifications and filled with palazzos and ...

Greenville chef Nello Gioia speaks with his friends in the northern Italian city of Bergamo every day. Sometimes twice a day. Each conversation, Gioia learns of worsening conditions in his hometown.

In the first few months of 2020, huge swathes of Northern Italy were hit by the COVID-19 virus. Soon the death toll in the city of Bergamo reached such heights that an army convoy had to transport ...

Italy has been a hot spot in the worldwide pandemic. One of the hardest hit cities is Bergamo, which happens to be a sister city to Pueblo, Colorado. Camouflaged military trucks slowly rolled through ...

For most people, Bergamo is a city of two parts: the historic Città Alta (Upper Town), and Città Bassa (Lower Town). Zoom out a little, though, and you’ll see those two halves are surrounded by a ...

Greenville recognized its own growing internationalism when Bergamo, in the foothills of the Alps in northern Italy, became its first sister city in June 1985. Chosen because of its similarity to ...

It is one of the prettiest cities in Italy, but how many of the passengers landing at the airport go near it? Most make a bee-line for Milan, for which Bergamo is the airport of choice of the low-cost ...

For two months, the wailing of ambulances cut into Bergamo’s soul. It knew no difference between bleak days and dark, tortured nights that came to seem endless. “The constant noise, you had to kill it ...

In March, our aim was to get to the Italian alpine city of Bergamo, by far the worst affected place by coronavirus on the planet at that time. They called it the 'red zone'. I'm used to going to ...