Ref. 4197 – Ponte San Pietro – Locate: elegant three-room apartment of 90 sqm on the second floor served by elevator, well furnished with new and valuable furniture. Central heating. Double garage and cellar.

The request is € 120,000.

About Ponte San Pietro

Ponte San Pietro is an Italian municipality of 11,508 inhabitants in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy. It is the seat of the territorial community of the Bergamo Island.

Ponte San Pietro lies on the banks of the Brembo River, which divides the town into two distinct areas. About 7 kilometers west of the Orobic capital, it is considered the first town coming from Bergamo in the area called Isola, a geographical area comprising 21 municipalities and bounded by the waters of the two main rivers, Adda and Brembo, and the sharp division of the Orobic valleys and mountains in front.

The name is believed to originate from the presence of a small bridge over the Brembo River and the adjoining small church dedicated to St. Peter in 881, through a notarial writing stating “Basilica Sancti Petri sita ad pontem Brembi.” Ponte San Pietro, from its origins, however, remained a transit area at a point on the Brembo riverbed that was difficult to cross by boat: therefore, it was not until 200 years later that the first settlements from one side of the river (S. Petri de là) to the other (S. Petri de za) began.

Manfredino De’ Melioratis, in the last years of the 13th century, built a castle in the present historic center, a settlement later destroyed by the Venetians in the early 18th century. Part of the demolished materials were reused to erect on the very first country church, what will always be remembered by the people as the “Old Church.” This church has made it possible to reconstruct some of the historical events of the village, having preserved some writings and burials for centuries, especially during the plague period.

Also in the eighteenth century in Sottoriva di Locate hamlet was erected the Villa Mapelli Mozzi, a neoclassical style residence very similar to the more famous Villa Reale in Monza; it was enlarged to its present form (the construction site was fully active and therefore the project fully defined) in 1773 (Count Enrico Mozzi “raised”), predating, therefore, the Villa Reale in Monza. Inside are fresco decorations by Vincenzo Angelo Orelli, e.g. Homo faber suae fortunae, and Paolo Vincenzo Bonomini.

In 1934, however, a church dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul was completed elsewhere in the village. That church differs from the old one mainly in size and a very tall bell tower, which became the center of Christian gathering both for the local population and for the entire Isola bergamasca during that period.

In both World War I and World War II, Ponte San Pietro was often bombed because of its bridges (rail and road) that allowed the supply of war material between Bergamo and Milan. The bridges were unharmed, while much of the surrounding area was devastated by the bombs dropped by the planes.