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Screen-printed poster of a clay tennis court at golden hour above the towers of Bergamo Città Alta

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A private institution with a somewhat public reputation.

Founded in Bergamo in 1967, Circolo Colleoni is a club for tennis, cinema, the table and good company. It keeps no premises today: it lives in its journal, its editions and the people who carry its number.

Bergamo, Italia

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Postcards from the club

A journal, a small number of editions, a free gift of wallpapers, and a committee of admirable slowness.

Poster illustration of a clay court at the end of the afternoon

Plate I — The court, in July

Poster illustration of Bergamo Città Alta at sunset

Plate II — Città Alta at sunset

Calendar

Next on the ATP Tour

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The Free Gift

Ten wallpapers, in exchange for nothing but an email address.

The Circolo Colleoni wallpaper collection: ten lithographic plates of long Italian summers, clay courts and lakeside aperitivo, sized for your phone and free to keep.

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Arrives as a ZIP. Costs nothing. Yours to keep.

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Made in small number, for members

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Bollettino

Fun facts from the bulletin

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  • TennisThe word 'tennis' is French, and an orderIt comes from tenez — 'take it', shouted by the server in the medieval French game of jeu de paume before the ball was struck. The scoring, the shouting and the arguing are all older than the racket.
  • ItaliaItaly has more UNESCO World Heritage sites than any other countrySixty of them, at last count, including the Venetian Works of Defence — the very walls that ring Bergamo's Città Alta and that our namesake helped to make necessary.
  • BergamoBergamo is really two citiesCittà Alta sits on the hill behind Venetian walls; Città Bassa spreads below. A funicular has connected them since 1887, and is still the most civilised commute in Lombardy.
Newsletter

Club Sandwich

A mostly monthly bulletin concerning members, films, editions and minor scandals.