Edicola Cinque Vie Roby ---

In Largo delle Cinque Vie, the city center, "il Robi" is an institution. His newsstand overlooks life in Bergamo like a "courtyard window" for over fifty years. His father Pietro, a stonemason by trade, and his mother Serafina opened it—she insisted on starting the business but sadly passed away when Roberto was just eleven years old. Together with the Urban Commerce District, we wanted to meet him to learn the story of his business. As a very young boy, Roberto found himself helping his father: "I would fold newspapers and deliver them. But then I'd get distracted with comic books and trading cards!" Every day the newsstand opens at seven in the morning, but until the end of the '90s it opened at five-thirty and closed at seven in the evening. Robi was the first...