MILANO BERGAMO AIRPORT ---

Just 5 km from the city of Bergamo stands Milano-Bergamo Airport. Named after the great painter Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, it is Italy's third largest airport with over 12 million passengers per year. Connected to 130 destinations across 35 countries, it is the airport in the heart of Northern Italy: this strategic and privileged position makes it perfect for visiting Bergamo, Milan, Lombardy and all the regions of Northern Italy. Founded in 1937 for military purposes, it became a civil airport in 1971, just a few months after the establishment of SACBO Società per l'Aeroporto Civile di Bergamo Orio al Serio, thus becoming Lombardy's third airport. Initially the routes covered are domestic scheduled flights, to which freight operations are added. It is among the end of the ye