Handy information (Always keep it in your pocket)

Mario Cassani (mobile)	+39 347 5117831

Gabriele Santilli (mobile)	+39 338 8436797

Hotel Verri
Santuario di Caravaggio - Via Beata Vergine, 4
24040 Misano di Gera d'Adda (Bergamo)
Tel. 0363/84622 - Fax 0363/340350
Email: info@hotelverri.it

Hotel Treviglio

24047 Treviglio (BG) - pl. Verdi, 7

tel: 0363 43744 - fax: 0363 49971

Milan Airports to Milan the city

LINATE to Milano Stazione Centrale

Departure from arrivals floor from 6.05 a.m. to 11.45 p.m. Every day, every 30 minutes
Price: full fare € 2.50 / cheap fare € 1.40
Tickets can be bought at Agenzia Starfly Linate or on the bus The bus stops also at Lambrate

Telephone: STARFLY +39.02.5858.7237

LINATE to Milano Piazza S.Babila (Bus 73)

Departure from arrivals floor from 06.05 a.m. to 00.55 a.m. Every day, every 10 minutes
Price: € 1.00
Tickets are available at bar, newspaper kiosks, and other authorised sales points

Telephone: ATM 800.80.81.81

MALPENSA to Milano Stazione Centrale

Departure from Terminal 1-exit 6-stop 3 from 06.35 a.m. to 11.35 p.m.Every day / two buses every hour at 35' and 55'
The bus stops also at Terminal 2 and, on request, at Fiera Milano (via Teodorico)

Price: € 5.50
Tickets can be bought at CURRENCY EXCHANGE Thomas Cook (arrivals floor, exit 2 and5) or on the bus

Telephones: MALPENSA BUS EXPRESS +39.02 33910794 STIE +39.0331 519000 CARONTE +39.02 2407954

MALPENSA to Milano Stazione Centrale

Departure from: Terminal 1-exit 6 from 05.30 a.m. to 00.15 a.m. Every day, every 20 minutes

The bus stops also at Terminal 2 and, on request, at Polo Fieristico Rho/Pero and Fiera Milano (via Teodorico)
Price: € 5.00
Tickets can be bought at Airport 2000 (arrivals floor) or on the bus.

Telephone: MALPENSA SHUTTLE AIR PULLMAN +39.0331 258411

MALPENSA to Milano Stazione Cadorna

Departure from Terminal 1-Floor -1 railway station 06.00 a.m. - 10.15 p.m.* - 10.45 p.m. - 11.15 p.m. - 00.15 a.m. - 01.30 a.m. Every day

Substitutive bus Malpensa Express to Milano Cadorna (*) on Sunday journey by train

Price: € 9.00
Tickets can be bought on the train

Telephone: MALPENSA EXPRESS FERROVIE NORD MILANO +39.02 20222

Orio Airport to Bergamo the City or Milano the City (The information is reported as supplied by the Orio's airport service providers)

AUTOSERVIZI ZANI VIAGGI S.r.l.

Bus service:
Orio - Bergamo Centro;
Orio - Milano (Lambrate);

Orio - Monza;
Orio - Desenzano - Sirmione - Peschiera.
Chauffeur-driven car hire:

Bus and car hire (on-line quotation).

Telephone: 0039 035 678678

Fax: 0039 035 678779
E-mail: info@shuttlebusexpress.com
Link: http://www.shuttlebusexpress.com

AUTOSTRADALE

Telephone: 0039 035 318472
Fax: 0039 035 318473
E-mail: oriobgy@autostradale.it
Link: http://www.autostradale.it

Passenger transport from the airport to Central station in Milan with regular scheduled services.
Bus - Minibus - Car hire for any destination.
Left luggage.
Tourist services.

TERRAVISION S.r.l.

Transfer service from the airport to the destination city centre.

Telephone: 0039 06 3244152
Fax: 0039 06 32504725
E-mail: direzione@terravision.it
Link: http://www.terravision.it

From Linate to Verri Hotel (Show this to the taxi driver)

Prendere la Rivoltana e proseguire fino a Caravaggio. Superare Rivolta d'Adda, proseguendo dritti. Prestare attenzione quando si incominciano a vedere le indicazioni per Vailate e Misano (sulla destra). Alla rotatoria che porta a Misano sulla destra ed al Santuario di Caravaggio sulla sinistra prendere per Caravaggio. L'Hotel Verri rimane sulla destra, pochi metri prima del Santuario.

From Treviglio to Verri Hotel (Show this to the taxi driver)

L'Hotel Verri di Misano (A), si trova pochi metri oltre il Santuario di Caravaggio, sulla sinistra della strada che da Caravaggio va a Misano.

From Treviglio to the pizza restaurant (Show this to the taxi driver)

La pizzeria (P) potrebbe essere il Bassano o il Gambero d'Oro, a Caravaggio. Arrivati al semaforo dell'incrocio col viale del Santuario svoltare a sinistra, verso Porta Nuova. Il Bassano rimane in fondo al vicoletto subito a sinistra del piazzale dopo Porta nuova mentre il Gambero d'Oro si trova in fondo allo stesso piazzale.

CARAVAGGIO MAP

From Treviglio railway stations to the Salesiani school

Treviglio has two railway stations: Treviglio Ovest (West in the map) and Treviglio Centrale (Central bottom in the map).

If you are coming from Bergamo you will sure stop in Treviglio Ovest. Follow the blue line, then the red one.

If you are coming from Milan with the train for Bergamo you will be in Treviglio Ovest too. Follow the blue line, then the red one.

If you are coming from Milan with a train for Cremona, Brescia, Verona, Venezia you will arrive in Treviglio Centrale. Follow the red line.

The Salesiani school is shown with a green circle (Central top of the map).

From Ovest railway station having the railway behind you take the street on the left side of the station square then cross largo 1 Maggio. You will be in via Mazzini, a street with the trees: you must stay on the right side and cover all via Mazzini until you reach a square after a curve on the right. Cross the square to reach the trees in viale del Partigiano. Stay on this side and walk. You will see a church on your right, in a square downstairs. There is another school before Salesiani, go on and cross the road when you face a stone pillar.

From Centrale railway station take the Viale de Gasperi (the big street with the trees) and reach its end keeping the left side of the street. You will be in a square (Piazza Insurrezione). Cross it and take via Matteotti (the street with the porch starting from the newsagent stand). In the little car parking you will see a small street (via Tommaso Grossi or via T. Grossi) starting from a shoes shop. This small street will take you nearly in front of a church. Take the even smaller street on the right side of the church and you will be in another small square behind the church. Cross the square and go upstairs (right stairs). You will be in viale del Partigiano. Stay on this side of viale del Partigiano an walk after turning right. There is another school before Salesiani, go on and cross the road when you face a stone pillar.

Miscellanea

I called the Central Railway Station cab telephone number and I got these info.

Mr. Mazzola (mobile phone 338 6285385) can be contacted the day before to reserve his car service. I doubt he speaks English so please ask Mario or Gabriele.

The cost, from Treviglio to Orio will be about 45 euros and take from 30 to 45 minutes depending on traffic (I think at 6 o' clock you will need only 25 minutes).

I've posted the telephone number and the name for future reference.

Caravaggio
(Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio)

born: Caravaggio or Milan, Lombardy [now Italy]; 29 September 1571
died: Port'Ercole, Tuscany [now Italy]; 18 July 1610

Caravaggio was the bastard son of Fermo Merisi, steward and architect for Francesco Sforza, the Marquis of Caravaggio. Fermo died in 1577, when Caravaggio was 11. In the spring of 1584, the Marquis apprenticed him for four years to the painter Simone Peterzano in Milan. He was in Lombardy at least until May of 1592 when the final dispensation of Fermo's estate was held.

By autumn of 1592 the twenty-one year old Caravaggio was in Rome, with his painterly skills and some money from his father's estate, to seek adventure and fortune. He lived in the household of Monsignor Pandolfo Pucci and settled into life by frequenting the Campo Marzio, a decaying neighborhood of art dealers, inns, eating houses, temporary shelters and prostitutes. This area suited both his circumstances and his temperament. He had little money. His inclinations were always toward young boys, pugilism, anarchy, and artistic reform. The Campo Marzio fitted him perfectly.

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Mario Cassani

2005-09-22T19:53:18