Piazza Dante ---

Piazza Dante, today a crucial hub of Bergamo's business district, conceals a unique historical stratification. Its current appearance, the result of a redevelopment completed in 2022, is only the latest chapter of a story that began in 1732 with the Sant'Alessandro Fair. History of Piazza Dante The square opens behind the quadriporticus of the Sentierone and hosts on its sides the Palazzo della Procura and the Camera di Commercio building. Piazza Dante was born in the eighteenth century as the focal point of the Sant'Alessandro Fair. Designed by Giovan Battista Caniana, it housed 540 shops and attracted merchants from all over Europe. In the 1920s it was redeveloped by Piacentini, who designed the entire Sentierone complex together with the other two central squares, Vittorio Veneto and Matteotti.