Designed in the first half of the fourteenth century by the Carmelites, it was built between the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. In the seventeenth century the stables, the chapter house and a new library were built.
The heart of this majestic structure is the rectangular cloister, with a portico of round arches. The arches are supported by columns with composite type capitals surmounted by pulvini and placed on a low wall. On the first floor, there are architrave loggias.
In the eighteenth century, the monastery entered a period of decline and abandonment and the rooms and cloister were prepared to become apartments for rent. In 1954 it was declared unusable and static consolidation work of the structure began. In recent years, thanks to important restoration work, the monastery has returned to show all its beauty and has rediscovered its place in the fabric of the city.
Today, in fact, it is managed by TTB - Tascabile Theatre of Bergamo, a historic international theatre company, which obtained it under concession from the Municipality of Bergamo. They made it their headquarters, taking care of the place and making it possible to use it for cultural events, shows and concerts.
The Carmine Monastery (15th century) is a public cultural asset of great historical and artistic interest. It is located in the historic center of Bergamo, on the northern side of the Upper Town. The building, deeply involved in the urban development of the city, brings together in a complete building organism a series of architectural pre-existences developed since Roman times.
The time frame of its construction, which begins in the second half of the 1300s, sees the period of maximum activity between the end of the 1400s and the beginning of the 1500s with the construction of a large part of the cloister, the refectory, the rooms for the monks , effectively ending in the second half of the 1600s with the construction of the stables, the Chapter Room and the new library.
Twenty years of static consolidation work began in 1956.
In 2018, the Teatro Tascabile signed the first Special Public Private Partnership (PSPP) in Italy with the Municipality of Bergamo for the recovery and cultural enhancement of the Carmine Monastery through the #yourCarmine project.
The redeveloped spaces are places of sharing for research, training and artistic production, where pedagogical projects, seminars, meetings, residencies, shows and open rehearsals can be developed with national and international groups. Environments available to the city, where to promote the cultural participation of citizens, generating opportunities inside and outside the Monastery.
These places are therefore conceived to host different and apparently distant experiences that can be encountered in a common home, a crossroads where everyone can leave their own experience, human and artistic, in a multidisciplinary perspective (theater, music, dance, cinema, visual arts).
Designed in the first half of the fourteenth century by the Carmelites, it was built between the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. In the seventeenth century the stables, the chapter house and a new library were built.
The heart of this majestic structure is the rectangular cloister, with a portico of round arches. The arches are supported by columns with composite type capitals surmounted by pulvini and placed on a low wall. On the first floor, there are architrave loggias.
In the eighteenth century, the monastery entered a period of decline and abandonment and the rooms and cloister were prepared to become apartments for rent. In 1954 it was declared unusable and static consolidation work of the structure began. In recent years, thanks to important restoration work, the monastery has returned to show all its beauty and has rediscovered its place in the fabric of the city.
Today, in fact, it is managed by TTB - Tascabile Theatre of Bergamo, a historic international theatre company, which obtained it under concession from the Municipality of Bergamo. They made it their headquarters, taking care of the place and making it possible to use it for cultural events, shows and concerts.
The Carmine Monastery (15th century) is a public cultural asset of great historical and artistic interest. It is located in the historic center of Bergamo, on the northern side of the Upper Town. The building, deeply involved in the urban development of the city, brings together in a complete building organism a series of architectural pre-existences developed since Roman times.
The time frame of its construction, which begins in the second half of the 1300s, sees the period of maximum activity between the end of the 1400s and the beginning of the 1500s with the construction of a large part of the cloister, the refectory, the rooms for the monks , effectively ending in the second half of the 1600s with the construction of the stables, the Chapter Room and the new library.
Twenty years of static consolidation work began in 1956.
In 2018, the Teatro Tascabile signed the first Special Public Private Partnership (PSPP) in Italy with the Municipality of Bergamo for the recovery and cultural enhancement of the Carmine Monastery through the #yourCarmine project.
The redeveloped spaces are places of sharing for research, training and artistic production, where pedagogical projects, seminars, meetings, residencies, shows and open rehearsals can be developed with national and international groups. Environments available to the city, where to promote the cultural participation of citizens, generating opportunities inside and outside the Monastery.
These places are therefore conceived to host different and apparently distant experiences that can be encountered in a common home, a crossroads where everyone can leave their own experience, human and artistic, in a multidisciplinary perspective (theater, music, dance, cinema, visual arts).
