The Bergamasque Alps or Bergamo Alps (

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: ''Alpi Orobie'', sometimes translated into English as Orobic Alps) are a

mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arise ...

in the

Alps. They are located in northern Lombardy and named after the city Bergamo, south of the mountains. Within the

Eastern Alps Eastern Alps is the name given to the eastern half of the Alps, usually defined as the area east of a line from Lake Constance and the Alpine Rhine valley up to the Splügen Pass at the Alpine divide and down the Liro River to Lake Como in t ...

, the

Alpine Club The first alpine club, the Alpine Club, based in the United Kingdom, was founded in London in 1857 as a gentlemen's club. It was once described as: :"a club of English gentlemen devoted to mountaineering, first of all in the Alps, members of whi ...

or AVE system places them within the Western Limestone Alps, while the SOIUSA system classifies them within the Southeastern Alps.

Peaks

The main peaks of the Bergamasque Alps are:

Passes

The main mountain passes of the Bergamasque Alps are:

Gallery

File:Lagobarbellino3.jpg, Barbellino Lake File:Cascatedelserio.JPG, Serio Falls File:Vista su Valbondione 01.JPG, Valbondione, in the Park of the Bergamo Orobic Alps File:Going through Prà de'Lac.jpg, Prà de'Lac File:Pizzo Redorta 02.JPG, Redorta File:Recastello3.jpg, Recastello File:Recastello4.jpg, Recastello File:Pizzo Coca.jpg, Pizzo Coca File:Bergamasque Alps in Summer.jpg, View of Punta Scais peak from Gromo File:Alpi Orobie d'estate.jpg, Bergamo Alps in Mid-summer

Panorama

File:Orobie.jpg, Winter panorama

Maps

* Italian official cartography ('' Istituto Geografico Militare'' - IGM); on-line version
www.pcn.minambiente.it

References