“Conviviality is a founding value of our vision. We believe that surrounding ourselves with beauty makes this experience even more enjoyable. We thank Accademia Carrara from the bottom of our hearts for offering us the opportunity to also link our name to Bergamo Brescia Italian Capital of Italian Culture 2023, bringing back to splendor two works that tell not only the history of the territory, but ultimately also the identity of our family”, commented the Cerea Family, who is working with some of the foods featured in the diptych – peach melba, chestnuts, citrus fruits, strawberry tree – to create new recipes.

“Promoting the heritage of Carrara means taking care of it, preserving it and making it accessible to ever new audiences. We are an open, lively, contemporary museum in its ability to speak to everyone, strong in a project developed by very high skills and consolidated relationships with the city, the territory and the world. Opening our doors is an essential value, which constantly engages us and which also passes through partnerships such as the one with Da Vittorio. Carrara and the Cerea family both work on an international scale starting, with awareness, from Bergamo where the roots and the heart remain. And this is another element that unites them and that will lead, I am convinced, to future and new collaborations”, underlined Gianpietro Bonaldi, General Manager of Accademia Carrara.

The Cerea Family’s commitment to Bergamo

We are sure of it, also because the Cerea family’s commitment to Bergamo, and not only, is constant. In 2017, for example, born the Vittorio Cerea Academyhotel management course within the Guido Galli Professional Institute, which is also followed by the assignment of scholarships to the most deserving students; in 2020, in the most bloody phases of the Covid pandemic which saw Bergamo sadly as the protagonist, Da Vittorio has made his experience and network of relationships available to the Civil Protection, serving up to 150 meals a day to the staff of the Alpine Field Hospital and distributing, in collaboration with the Municipality of Bergamo, excess food to the neediest families, for a total of 16,000 people reached.

Cavour 1880 al Brolo – Trattoria with friends

Even the latest family news is ultimately a tribute to the beauties of Bergamo. For the entire summer season, Cavour 1880 – the pastry shop and gastroboutique owned by the Cerea family, in Bergamo Alta – is moving to its second “home”, at the former Monastery of Astino. It does so with Cavour 1880 al Brolo – Trattoria with friendsanimating the area that the ecclesiastical community of Astino had once used as an orchard and vegetable garden. A piece of history that he paid homage to with dishes in which the bond with the land is particularly evident, once again.

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