Carmine Monastery

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).