Porta San Giacomo, Bergamo

Porta San Giacomo perhaps the most beautiful of the gates from the Venetian walls to the upper city of Bergamo, was built in 1592, is the only one made of pinkish white marble from the Zandobbio quarry in Val Cavallina. Construction of the Venetian walls began in 1561, and they were to be the protected outpost to the west of the Serenissima's territories from the Milanese, which after the death of Francis Sforza II and the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis had become a Spanish province.The walls have four gates that make the entrance to the upper part of the city accessible: Porta san Lorenzo, Porta sant'Agostino, Porta sant'Alessandro and Porta San Giacomo, and until the mid-20th century when the Campanone at 10 p.m. struck one hundred chimes, they were closed.

As of July 9, 2017, the Venetian walls have joined UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, in the transnational serial site "Venetian defense works between the 16th and 17th centuries: State by Land-State by Western Sea."