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Como - the city lake Como

Como - the city

Como - the city lake ComoComo City, situated on the banks of the lake, is encircled by enchanting hills and couldn't be easier to visit. Travelling from Milan to Como takes less than one hour by train and even less time by car. There are many interesting sites to visit whilst meandering through the streets of Como, historical monuments, beautiful villas and breath-taking sights . The historic centre is located inside the ancient city walls where there are many shops and boutiques, and plenty of cafes for you to rest, enjoy the view and have a well earned refreshment. Today Como is a dynamic, business city with an important history in textile (mainly silk) manufacturing and trading. Due to this traditional textile industry the city is commonly referred to as the Silk Capital.

La città Murata - the walled city

The expression - città murata - indicates the quadrangular area included between the walls risen between 1159 and 1175, of which three sides still survive. It is aa area of great historical ..

Teatro Sociale

Edificato, su progetto di Giuseppe Cusi (1811-13), sull’area del distrutto castello detto della Torre Rotonda. Ha la facciata neoclassica preceduta da un pronao di 6 colonne corinzie.

L’inte ..

The cathedral

The cathedral is the result of more than four centuries of working; the construction began in 1396 on the ancient Romanesque basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. Looking carefully at the structure it is ..

The Broletto

Remarkable building with a gothic facade with white, grey, and red marble belts, flanked from the civic tower in ashlar stones. It was erected in the 1215 by the podestà Bonardo Codazzo, then modified ..

Basilica of San Fedele

It is in the center of the city, in the homonymous public square; it comes from the addition of a longitudinal nave to a previous early Christian church, dedicated to Santa Eufemia, dated back to the ..

Villa Olmo

The villa, built in neoclassical style, was commissioned from marquis Innocenzo Odescalchi and built up on a property of the XVII century, called "of the elm tree" for a secular tree, today not more e ..

Volta's temple

In the 1899 we already had the possibility to visit the Voltiana Exposure, full of manuscripts and instruments of highest scientific importance, left us in inheritance by the scientist. Unfortunate ..

War Memorial

The tower, 33 meters high, with large windows and completely covered with stone of Aurisina and Reppen, rises in the public garden in front of the magnificent panorama of the lake and near the Tempio ..

Ville antiche della Città

Villa Saporiti (la Rotonda)

Disegnata da Leopold Pollack o, secondo una testimonianza di metà Ottocento, da Simone Cantoni, autore anche della famosa villa Olmo. Venne costruita tra il 1790 ..

Basilica of Sant' Abbondio

It is a meaningful example of Lombardic Romanesque architecture and masterpiece of the comacini masters. It rose on the early-christian church of the Saintest Apostles, whose perimeter is marked on th ..

Basilica of San Carpoforo

It rises at the end of the city where, acoording to the tradition, in this place already dedicated to pagan cults, the first bishop of Como Felice changed the temple dedicated to Mercury into a Christ ..

Camerlata Fountain

Its planners were the architect Cesar Cattaneo and the painter Mario Radice. The idea was born in 1935 but the realization took place only the following year, during the VI International Triennial of ..

Madonna del Prodigio

The building, known also like Temple - museum of the nautical sports, is a recent building with one nave, consacrated in March of 1968.
It rises in dominant position, and it is a jewel of modern ..

Casa del Fascio - Terragni Palace

It rises outside the perimeter of the walled city, on the Public square called Piazza del Popolo and is the most famous and important work of the architect Giuseppe Terragni. It was built between 1932 ..

Torre di Porta Vittoria o Porta Torre

È la più antica ed imponente delle torri medievali rimaste. È quella centrale e fu eretta nel 1192 assieme ad altre opere di difesa della città. Ha pianta quadrata, è alta circa 40 metri e, mentre nel ..

Palazzo Volpi - Pinacoteca

Fatto erigere tra il 1610 e il 1630 dal vescovo Vulpiano Volpi, in forme che riecheggiano lo stile di Galeazzo Alessi e di Pellegrino Ribaldi.

Già sede del Palazzo di Giustizia è attualmente ..

Novocomum

È la più precoce opera compiuta del razionalismo italiano, eretta tra il 1927 ed il 1929, su progetto dell’architetto Giuseppe Terragni. Sorge poco dopo lo stadio ed è un edificio a cinque piani e, pe ..

Castel Baradello

Powerful structure risen in dominant position, rebuilt by the Barbarossa towards the half of XII century.
The original building, probably surrounded by walls that connected it to the defensive b ..
 
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