{"id":11995,"date":"2017-11-10T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.camminacitta.it\/como-percorso-6-punti-di-interesse\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T16:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:40:16","slug":"como-percorso-6-punti-di-interesse","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.camminacitta.it\/en\/como-percorso-6-punti-di-interesse\/","title":{"rendered":"Como Percorso 6 Punti di interesse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h1><strong>The Path of Invention<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><hr \/>\n<br \/>\n<a title=\"Como Path 6 - Stage 1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.camminacitta.it\/en\/como-percorso-6\/como-percorso-6-tappa-1\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Stage 1 \u2013 The city center<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-tabs fusion-tabs-1 classic awb-tabs-transition awb-tabs-transition-fade vertical-tabs icon-position-left mobile-mode-accordion\" style=\"--awb-title-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-title-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-title-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-title-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-alignment:start;--awb-inactive-color:#f9f9fb;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-border-color:#e2e2e2;--awb-active-border-color:#ff9d00;--awb-active-border-size:3px;--awb-transition-speed:300ms;--awb-border-size:1px;\"><div class=\"nav\"><ul class=\"nav-tabs\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\"><li class=\"active\" role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-ae430c759b531be5c5b\" aria-selected=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\" id=\"fusion-tab-ae430c759b531be5c5b\" href=\"#tab-ae430c759b531be5c5b\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">Birthplace of Alessandro Volta<\/h4><\/a><\/li><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-39cfdf2786ed09213bd\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"fusion-tab-39cfdf2786ed09213bd\" href=\"#tab-39cfdf2786ed09213bd\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">The Gattoni Tower<\/h4><\/a><\/li><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-318001364ec1b200084\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"fusion-tab-318001364ec1b200084\" href=\"#tab-318001364ec1b200084\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">Alessandro Volta High School<\/h4><\/a><\/li><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-25a73d43d5e55c633ee\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"fusion-tab-25a73d43d5e55c633ee\" href=\"#tab-25a73d43d5e55c633ee\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">S. Donnino<\/h4><\/a><\/li><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-93e2b9644fca1c52fdb\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"fusion-tab-93e2b9644fca1c52fdb\" href=\"#tab-93e2b9644fca1c52fdb\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">Former Jesuit College<\/h4><\/a><\/li><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-7254e673d9805ddf78c\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"fusion-tab-7254e673d9805ddf78c\" href=\"#tab-7254e673d9805ddf78c\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">Monument to Alessandro Volta<\/h4><\/a><\/li><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-c15026d9b8a14892c8f\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"fusion-tab-c15026d9b8a14892c8f\" href=\"#tab-c15026d9b8a14892c8f\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">Giosu\u00e8 Carducci Institute and The Hall of the Nobel Prize Winners<\/h4><\/a><\/li><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-41d09188eb7d8e90077\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"fusion-tab-41d09188eb7d8e90077\" href=\"#tab-41d09188eb7d8e90077\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">The Voltaic Exhibition of 1899<\/h4><\/a><\/li><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-de0c556019b0d39897d\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"fusion-tab-de0c556019b0d39897d\" href=\"#tab-de0c556019b0d39897d\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">The Life Electric<\/h4><\/a><\/li><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-5c98f4be01e7f30058a\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"fusion-tab-5c98f4be01e7f30058a\" href=\"#tab-5c98f4be01e7f30058a\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">The Voltaic Temple<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tab-content\"><div class=\"nav fusion-mobile-tab-nav\"><ul class=\"nav-tabs\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\"><li class=\"active\" role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-ae430c759b531be5c5b\" aria-selected=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\" id=\"mobile-fusion-tab-ae430c759b531be5c5b\" href=\"#tab-ae430c759b531be5c5b\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">Birthplace of Alessandro Volta<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tab-pane fade fusion-clearfix in active\" role=\"tabpanel\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-labelledby=\"fusion-tab-ae430c759b531be5c5b\" id=\"tab-ae430c759b531be5c5b\"><div class=\"awb-tab-pane-inner\">\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"longdesc-return-7922\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13791 size-fusion-400\" tabindex=\"-1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/casa-alessandro-volta.jpg?resize=400%2C245&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"245\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.camminacitta.it?longdesc=7922&amp;referrer=7846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/casa-alessandro-volta.jpg?resize=200%2C123&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/casa-alessandro-volta.jpg?resize=300%2C184&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/casa-alessandro-volta.jpg?resize=400%2C245&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/casa-alessandro-volta.jpg?resize=600%2C368&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/casa-alessandro-volta.jpg?resize=768%2C470&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/casa-alessandro-volta.jpg?resize=800%2C490&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/casa-alessandro-volta.jpg?resize=1024%2C627&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/casa-alessandro-volta.jpg?resize=1200%2C735&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/casa-alessandro-volta.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"line-height: 1.6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Birthplace of Alessandro Volta<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Information<br \/>\n<\/span><strong>Location<\/strong>: Alessandro Volta&#8217;s birthplace is in via Volta 62 in Como<br \/>\n<strong>Paving<\/strong>: the road surface of via Volta is made of porphyry tiles with side bands paved in stone. The entrance hall is also paved in stone<br \/>\n<strong>Architectural barriers<\/strong>: on the sides of the entrance gates there are two low conical stone bollards<br \/>\n<strong>Access<\/strong>: access from the entrance in via Volta<br \/>\n<strong>Services<\/strong>: parking available in Viale Varese, outside the walled city; city and suburban bus stops available outside the walled city. Municipal Library of Como in Piazzetta Venosto Lucati<br \/>\n<strong>Leisure and Catering<\/strong>: bars and cafes in the area; public garden along Viale Varese with a fountain<br \/>\n<strong>Other information:<\/strong> pedestrian area with limited traffic. The structure is privately owned and generally cannot be visited; however, it is possible to contact the secretariat of the Order of Engineers of the Province of Como, tel. 031.269810 (Monday to Friday 9.00-12.00) for a visit to the part of competence<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Description<br \/>\n<\/span>(Silvia Fasana)<\/p>\n<p>The house in which Alessandro Volta, the sixth child of Filippo and Maddalena Inzaghi, was born on February 18, 1745, and died on March 5, 1827, is the result of the unification of various contiguous buildings that took place since 1536, when an ancestor of the physicist, Zanino, had moved from Loveno di Menaggio to Como. In 1803 the physicist himself, considering it too small and inadequate, even if he would have liked Palazzo Rezzonico (now home to the &#8220;Giuseppe Garibaldi&#8221; Historical Museum), contented himself with further expanding it by buying an adjoining house from the Raimondi family. In 1862 the house was purchased by Carlo Pizzala who had it radically restored, giving it its current late-neoclassical appearance. Currently the building houses the headquarters of the Order of Engineers, offices and private homes. On the fa\u00e7ade, to the right of the entrance door, a plaque commemorates &#8220;This was \/ the ancestral home \/ of \/ Alessandro Volta \/ the Town Hall p.&#8221;. It is worth mentioning the interesting hanging garden arranged on the embankment along the walls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pa47\" style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Contacts<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"pa47\" style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Order of Engineers of the Province of Como<\/strong> via Volta 62 Como; tel. 031.269810; <a href=\"mailto:info@ordingcomo.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">info@ordingcomo.org<\/a>; <a title=\"Order of Engineers of the Province of Como\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ordingcomo.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.ordingcomo.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"pa47\" style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Info Point Broletto, <\/strong>Via Pretorio, Como; Tel. 031.304137; <a href=\"mailto:infopointcomo@comune.como.it\"> infopointcomo@comune.como.it<\/a>; <a title=\"Info Point Broletto\" href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Info Point San Giovanni Railway Station<\/strong> Piazzale San Gottardo 1, Como; Mobile 342.0076403; <a href=\"mailto: info.stazionefs@comune.como.it\">info.stazionefs@comune.como.it<\/a>; <a title=\"Info Point San Giovanni Railway Station\" href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify;\">Read more about Alessandro Volta&#8217;s birthplace here:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/scoprire\/alessandro-volta\/luoghi-voltiani\/residenze-volta\/index.html\">Tourist site of the Municipality of Como<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/scoprire\/alessandro-volta\/luoghi-voltiani\/residenze-volta\/index.html\"><span class=\"s3\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/alessandrovolta.it\/luoghi-voltiani\/como\/casa-natale\/\"><span class=\"s3\">Site dedicated to Alessandro Volta<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/alessandrovolta.it\/luoghi-voltiani\/como\/casa-natale\/\"><span class=\"s3\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/passeggiatecreative.it\/index.php\/project\/sulle_orme_di_volta\/\"><span class=\"s3\">Site dedicated to creative walks &#8220;In the footsteps of Volta&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"nav fusion-mobile-tab-nav\"><ul class=\"nav-tabs\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\"><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-39cfdf2786ed09213bd\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"mobile-fusion-tab-39cfdf2786ed09213bd\" href=\"#tab-39cfdf2786ed09213bd\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">The Gattoni Tower<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tab-pane fade fusion-clearfix\" role=\"tabpanel\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-labelledby=\"fusion-tab-39cfdf2786ed09213bd\" id=\"tab-39cfdf2786ed09213bd\"><div class=\"awb-tab-pane-inner\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/TORREGATTONIrid.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"longdesc-return-7923\" class=\" wp-image-7923\" tabindex=\"-1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/TORREGATTONIrid.jpg?resize=264%2C352&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Torre Gattoni\" width=\"264\" height=\"352\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.camminacitta.it?longdesc=7923&amp;referrer=7846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/TORREGATTONIrid.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/TORREGATTONIrid.jpg?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"line-height: 1.6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">The Gattoni Tower<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Information<br \/>\n<\/span><strong>Location<\/strong>: the Gattoni Tower is located on the corner of Viale Varese and Viale Cattaneo in Como<br \/>\n<strong>Paving<\/strong>: the tower is surrounded on four sides by a wide grassy strip separated by a stone curb of about 10 centimetres from the market area that runs along the Varese and Cattaneo avenues<br \/>\n<strong>Access<\/strong>: &#8211;<br \/>\n<strong>Services<\/strong>: parking in the dedicated area along Viale Varese; urban and suburban bus stops available in the area; ATMs in via Giulini, via Milano-corner Piazza Vittoria. Municipal Library of Como in Piazzetta Venosto Lucati<br \/>\n<strong>Leisure and Catering<\/strong>: bars and cafes in the area; public garden along Viale Varese with fountain<br \/>\n<strong>Other information:<\/strong> the tower is still owned by the Municipality of Como and is open to the public only on special occasions<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Description<br \/>\n<\/span>(Silvia Fasana)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While Giulio Cesare Gattoni (1741-1809) was attending the last year of Rhetoric with the Jesuits, in 1758, Alessandro Volta (four years younger than him), whom Gattoni had already been living for some time as a neighbour and playmate, also entered the college. The closeness in the studies deepened their familiarity and a solid friendship and collaboration was born, favoured by common interests and curiosity about physical phenomena. In the laboratory that he had initially set up in his own home, Gattoni, ordained a priest in 1765 and appointed Canon of the cathedral, frequently hosted his friend, with whom he conducted his first experiments on natural phenomena, the properties of gases, electricity and meteorology. As a result of these experiments, in 1869 Volta wrote his dissertation <i>De vi attractiva ignis electrici ac phoenomenis inde pendentibus, <\/i>dedicated to Giovanni Battista Beccaria and, in 1771, the text <i>Novus ac simplicissimus electricorum tentaminum apparatus<\/i>, dedicated to Lazzaro Spallanzani. Remembering that period, Gattoni wrote that in Volta he had found an <i>&#8220;indivisible companion&#8221;,<\/i> but from 1774 their relations became less close, since the latter was appointed Regent of the Public Schools of Como and, subsequently, professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Pavia. Probably around 1784 (as attested by Giovio himself) Gattoni obtained in use from the Municipality of Como (thanks to the support of Giovan Battista Giovio,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>then Conservator in the Congregation of Heritage), the ancient medieval tower of Porta Nuova (today better known as Torre Gattoni), to move the physics laboratory he had at his home, also creating a meteorological observatory and a museum with stuffed animals, shells, minerals, as well as weapons, armour and archaeological finds. The building marks the south-eastern corner of the city walls; it took its name from the New Castle erected at the same time as the city walls in 1158 and destroyed in 1447, at the time of the Republic of Sant&#8217;Abbondio, because it was considered superfluous. It has a pentagonal plan (like the contemporary Tower of San Vitale located at the opposite end of the southern side of the walls) and is characterized by a slight inclination, perhaps already manifested during its construction. This museum must have been quite famous at the time, so much so that it was visited by celebrities such as the polygraph scientist Carlo Amoretti, the naturalist Candida Lena Perpenti and the Swiss mountaineer and scientist Horace-B\u00e9n\u00e9dict de Saussure. On the roof of his house in Contrada di Porta Nuova he had installed a <i>Franklinian bar <\/i>in 1768, built in such a way as to act simultaneously as a lightning rod (most likely the first in Italy) and as an \u00ab<i>explorer of atmospheric electricity<\/i>&#8220;, as he himself wrote; when he came in possession of the Tower, he moved it to its roof. At the beginning of the nineteenth century Gattoni opened the museum of natural sciences, the physics cabinet and the meteorological observatory to the teachers and students of the new high school (the Lyceum) in Como. Before his death in 1809, he donated his equipment twice to the same Lyceum, which in 1865 was dedicated to his friend Alessandro Volta; his donations are remembered by a plaque on the short staircase leading to the Institute&#8217;s new library, erected immediately after his death by the Prefect of the Province, Michele Vismara by decree of Viceroy Eugenio Beauharnais. The dedication of the monument to electricity was subsequently renewed around the thirties of the last century, when the Tower became the site of the first electrical substation that supplied the current for the lighting of the walled city,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>which remained active until 1958. This is still evidenced today by the presence of the electrical panel with measuring instruments and disconnectors, as well as the transformers of the &#8220;rock-and-tilt&#8221; type.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Contacts<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Info Point Broletto, <\/b>Via Pretorio, Como; Tel. 031.304137;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"mailto:infopointcomo@comune.como.it\">infopointcomo@comune.como.it<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Info Point San Giovanni Railway Station<\/b> Piazzale San Gottardo 1, Como; Mobile<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>342.0076403; <a href=\"mailto:info.stazionefs@comune.como.it\"><span class=\"s3\">info.stazionefs@comune.como.it<\/span><\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s4\">To find out more about the relationship between Gattoni and Volta:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/giulio-cesare-gattoni_(Dizionario-Biografico)\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/giulio-cesare-gattoni_(Dictionary-Biographical)\/<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giulio_Cesare_Gattoni\"><span class=\"s3\">https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giulio_Cesare_Gattoni<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s4\">To find out more:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/scoprire\/monumenti\/monumenti-fino-900\/torre_gattoni\/index.html\"><span class=\"s3\">Tourist site of the Municipality of Como<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/alessandrovolta.it\/luoghi-voltiani\/como\/torre-gattoni\/%2520e%2520http:\/alessandrovolta.it\/musei-e-mostre\/musei-permanenti\/laboratorio-gattoni-como\/\"><span class=\"s3\">Site dedicated to Alessandro Volta <\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/passeggiatecreative.it\/index.php\/project\/sulle_orme_di_volta\/\"><span class=\"s3\">Site dedicated to creative walks &#8220;In the footsteps of Volta&#8221;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"nav fusion-mobile-tab-nav\"><ul class=\"nav-tabs\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\"><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-318001364ec1b200084\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"mobile-fusion-tab-318001364ec1b200084\" href=\"#tab-318001364ec1b200084\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">Alessandro Volta High School<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tab-pane fade fusion-clearfix\" role=\"tabpanel\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-labelledby=\"fusion-tab-318001364ec1b200084\" id=\"tab-318001364ec1b200084\"><div class=\"awb-tab-pane-inner\">\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"longdesc-return-7928\" class=\"wp-image-13902 size-fusion-400\" tabindex=\"-1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/liceo-volta.jpg?resize=400%2C208&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"208\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.camminacitta.it?longdesc=7928&amp;referrer=7846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/liceo-volta.jpg?resize=200%2C104&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/liceo-volta.jpg?resize=300%2C156&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/liceo-volta.jpg?resize=400%2C208&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/liceo-volta.jpg?resize=600%2C311&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/liceo-volta.jpg?resize=768%2C398&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/liceo-volta.jpg?resize=800%2C415&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/liceo-volta.jpg?resize=1024%2C531&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/liceo-volta.jpg?resize=1200%2C623&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/liceo-volta.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"line-height: 1.6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">&#8220;Alessandro Volta&#8221; High School<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Information<br \/>\n<\/span><strong>Location<\/strong>: the headquarters of the Liceo Classico e Scientifico &#8220;A. Volta&#8221; are in via Cesare Cant\u00f9 57 in Como<br \/>\n<strong>Paving<\/strong>: via Battisti is made of porphyry tiles with side bands paved in stone; the steps leading to the portico are made of stone, while the pavement under the portico is made of concrete, with the exception of the band at the bases of the columns, made of stone. The space between the access door and the second internal door to the Institute is paved in stone, with a central concrete frame. The atrium is made of stone tiles<br \/>\n<strong>Architectural barriers:<\/strong> the entrance is separated from street level by a low step (5 centimetres) that allows access to the landing under the portico in front of the fa\u00e7ade. Continuing north along Via Cant\u00f9, the rise of the step progressively increases; at the entrance to the church of S. Cecilia and to the next door, this step is divided into two lower ones to facilitate access. There is a very low stone threshold at the entrance door. To reach the first floor, where the collection of scientific instruments is located, there is a wide staircase of low stone steps; an elevator is also available (with a key that can be requested)<br \/>\n<strong>Access<\/strong>: it is accessed from the main entrance in via Cesare Cant\u00f9 57, to the left (looking at the fa\u00e7ade) of the door to S. Cecilia.<br \/>\n<strong>Services<\/strong>: Car park in via Auguadri (800 parking spaces); urban and suburban bus stops available in the area outside the walled city; ATMs in via Giulini, via Milano-corner Piazza Vittoria; public toilets in the underpass of Viale Spallino; pharmacy in via Cesare Cant\u00f9. Municipal Library of Como in Piazzetta Venosto Lucati<br \/>\n<strong>Leisure and Catering<\/strong>: bars, cafes and shops of various kinds in the area; small public garden between Viale Spallino and Via Milano<br \/>\n<strong>Other information:<\/strong> pedestrian area with limited traffic. For information on visiting the physics collection, please contact the Institute&#8217;s secretariat, tel. 031.261498 (Monday to Friday 10.30-12.30; Saturday 10.00-12.00)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Description<br \/>\n<\/span>(Paola Corradi)<\/p>\n<p>In Napoleonic times, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Gymnasium of Como (where Alessandro Volta had been professor of Experimental Physics from 1775 to 1778) was transferred from its original location, next to the church of the Ges\u00f9, to the former convent of the Augustinian nuns of S. Cecilia, suppressed in 1798. In the same building, following the law on public education of September 1802, with the school year 1803-1804 a new &#8220;sub-university&#8221; school had also been established, called in 1810 &#8220;Liceo dipartimentale del Lario&#8221;. The renovation of the rooms of the old convent to adapt them to new needs had already been entrusted to the architect Simone Cantoni in 1804. Cantoni himself designed the Benzi Room, built to house the libraries from the College of Doctors, the Jesuit College and other collections of the ecclesiastical foundations suppressed by the Austrians and French. This rich book heritage will come to constitute the first nucleus of the Municipal Library of Como. In 1816 the elegant neoclassical fa\u00e7ade was completed, embellished with a portico with eight cipollino marble columns with Corinthian bases and capitals from the former baptistery of S. Giovanni in Atrio, in turn probably recovered from an older Roman building. The work of adaptation continued in the following years with Biagio Magistretti, a teacher in the same school. In 1838, following a government circular from the Austrian Viceroy Raineri, the Technological Cabinet of experimental physics and natural sciences was established, which also included the endowment of the Royal Gymnasium and the rich collections left to the school by Canon Giulio Cesare Gattoni a few decades earlier. In the years 1845-1846 Alessandro Volta&#8217;s sons, Zanino and Luigi, donated to the Lyceum a certain number of instruments invented and used by their father; these &#8220;relics&#8221; were repeatedly requested by the Municipality of Como for its Museum, where they were finally delivered in 1897; however, most of them were destroyed during the fire that devastated the great Volta Exhibition of 1899. The school also hosted a Botanical Garden, created by Giuseppe Comolli, a teacher at the Lyceum from 1809 to 1817. In 1851, following the new Austrian regulations, the merger of the Gymnasium and the Lyceum into the new Gymnasium was arranged; they were again separated eight years later, following political upheavals, but in 1877 the two courses were definitively reunited. In 1865 the Institute was named after Alessandro Volta, to commemorate the scientist&#8217;s presence at the Royal Gymnasium. From the 2015-2016 school year, the Liceo Classico was joined by the Liceo Scientifico. Already in 1832, in the Aula magna (Grand&#8217;Aula) of the school, a marble bust of the great physicist had been inaugurated, the work of Gaetano Monti, donated by Francesco Mocchetti, teacher of the Liceo and former pupil and admirer of Volta; in 1834 the bust was moved to the atrium, where it can still be seen today. The &#8220;A. Volta&#8221; High School preserves a valuable collection of scientific instruments from the times of Volta, that was already part of the first Technological Cabinet of experimental physics and natural sciences. In the years 1998-2003 the collection was carefully restored thanks to the contribution of the Provincial Administration of Como and the Cariplo Foundation and was given a worthy layout thanks to the work of teachers Elettra Coen and Loredana Mattalia with the architect Darko Pandakovic. The oldest instruments date back to the last quarter of the eighteenth century, while the largest group is dated to the first half of the nineteenth century. The objects in the showcases concern the most diverse fields of physics: from mechanics to astronomy, from optics to acoustics, up to calorimetry, fluid dynamics, electricity, magnetism. Among the devices preserved in the &#8220;Games&#8221; section, it is interesting to remember the so-called &#8220;Moretto&#8221;. Already indicated in the inventories of 1807 as &#8220;<em>a statue indicating a Turk with a flammable air lamp<\/em>&#8220;, it is mentioned in some writings by Volta himself: &#8220;<em>A friend of mine here in Como<\/em> [probably Giulio Cesare Gattoni]&#8230; <em>he has also built a statue, and placed it on the shelf of a ladder, the copperhead of which is a bomb, and which carries a pistol in his hand, etc.<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>It is not possible to tell you how many very curious experiments I have already made, and how many more can be done with this gun by means of the electric spark. Imagine what was the stupor of many spectators, in whose presence I set fire to the pistol with the tip of my finger (after having been electrified on the stool). \u2026 But what made them startle above all was the excitement of the disengagement of the gun at a distance from the machine that was being played.<\/em>&#8221; The Lyceum also houses an interesting museum of Natural History (1847), already part of the first Technological Cabinet, enriched over the years with purchases and donations from citizens. There are over ten thousand artifacts including numerous specimens of birds and other stuffed animals (notably the two-headed calf), a remarkable collection of shells, an entomological collection, a very rich nineteenth-century herbarium containing specimens of plants from Como, Lecco and Valtellina, collected and classified by the priest Pietro Ronchetti, as well as a collection of fossil fish from Monte Bolca, some fossils from the ichthyotic schists of Perledo and about two thousand samples of minerals and rocks.<\/p>\n<p>Contacts<br \/>\n<b>Liceo Classico e Scientifico &#8220;A. Volta&#8221;,<\/b> via Cesare Cant\u00f9 57, Como; Tel. 031.261498; copc020007@istruzione.it; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liceovoltacomo.gov.it\/\"><span class=\"s1\">http:\/\/www.liceovoltacomo.gov.it\/<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><b>Info Point Broletto, <\/b>Via Pretorio, Como; Tel. 031.304137;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"mailto:infopointcomo@comune.como.it\">infopointcomo@comune.como.it<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s3\">; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s1\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Info Point San Giovanni Railway Station<\/b> Piazzale San Gottardo 1, Como; Mobile<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>342.0076403;; <a href=\"mailto:info.stazionefs@comune.como.it\"><span class=\"s1\">info.stazionefs@comune.como.it<\/span><\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s1\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s4\">To find out more: Website of the &#8220;Alessandro Volta&#8221; High School <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liceovoltacomo.gov.it\/il-liceo-a-volta\/60-il-museo-di-scienze.html\"><span class=\"s1\">http:\/\/www.liceovoltacomo.gov.it\/il-liceo-a-volta\/60-il-museo-di-scienze.html<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a>Website of the architect Darko Pandakovic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studiopandakovic.it\/progettazione\/museografia\/interventi-museografici\/liceo-volta-galleria-collez\/index.html\"><span class=\"s1\">http:\/\/www.studiopandakovic.it\/progettazione\/museografia\/interventi-museografici\/liceo-volta-galleria-collez\/index.html<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nTourist website of the Municipality of Como <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/scoprire\/musei\/altri-musei\/museo_scienze_liceo_volta\/index.html\"><span class=\"s1\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/scoprire\/musei\/altri-musei\/museo_scienze_liceo_volta\/index.html<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nSite dedicated to Alessandro Volta <a href=\"http:\/\/alessandrovolta.it\/luoghi-voltiani\/como\/liceo-ginnasio-volta\/\"><span class=\"s1\">http:\/\/alessandrovolta.it\/luoghi-voltiani\/como\/liceo-ginnasio-volta\/<\/span><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/alessandrovolta.it\/musei-e-mostre\/musei-permanenti\/museo-del-liceo-volta-como\/\"><span class=\"s1\">http:\/\/alessandrovolta.it\/musei-e-mostre\/musei-permanenti\/museo-del-liceo-volta-como\/<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Site dedicated to creative walks &#8220;In the footsteps of Volta&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/passeggiatecreative.it\/index.php\/project\/sulle_orme_di_volta\/\"><span class=\"s1\">http:\/\/passeggiatecreative.it\/index.php\/project\/sulle_orme_di_volta\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s5\">Other references: E. Coen, L. Mattalia, <\/span><i>La collezione museale di strumenti di fisica del Liceo Classico &#8220;A. Volta&#8221; di Como<\/i><span class=\"s5\">, Provincia di Como, Liceo Classico &#8220;A. Volta&#8221; Como, Como 2002.<br \/>\n<\/span><i>The Physics Cabinet of the A. Volta Classical High School in Como. Reflections on the didactic-scientific culture of the late eighteenth century<\/i><span class=\"s5\">, Editoriale Lombarda, Como 2003.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"nav fusion-mobile-tab-nav\"><ul class=\"nav-tabs\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\"><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-25a73d43d5e55c633ee\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"mobile-fusion-tab-25a73d43d5e55c633ee\" href=\"#tab-25a73d43d5e55c633ee\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">S. Donnino<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tab-pane fade fusion-clearfix\" role=\"tabpanel\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-labelledby=\"fusion-tab-25a73d43d5e55c633ee\" id=\"tab-25a73d43d5e55c633ee\"><div class=\"awb-tab-pane-inner\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/san-Donnino.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"longdesc-return-7929\" class=\" wp-image-7929\" tabindex=\"-1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/san-Donnino.jpg?resize=361%2C361&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"facciata\" width=\"361\" height=\"361\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.camminacitta.it?longdesc=7929&amp;referrer=7846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/san-Donnino.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/san-Donnino.jpg?resize=210%2C210&amp;ssl=1 210w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/san-Donnino.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/san-Donnino.jpg?w=512&amp;ssl=1 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"line-height: 1.6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">S. Donnino<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Information<br \/>\n<\/span><strong>Location<\/strong>: the church of S. Donnino is located in Via Diaz in Como<br \/>\n<strong>Paving:<\/strong> Via Diaz is made of porphyry tiles with side bands paved in stone; the steps leading to the churchyard and the churchyard itself are made of stone slabs<br \/>\n<strong>Architectural barriers:<\/strong> the small churchyard in front (not protected on the front side) is accessed by a wide central staircase of 11 steps, flanked on both sides by iron handrails. The staircase (from the third step), however, is normally closed by a low iron gate. Inside the church you enter by surmounting two other stone steps. Vestibule doors allow entry to the church.<br \/>\n<strong>Services<\/strong>: parking not available inside the walled city (except at the Arena in via Vincenzo Bellini 21); urban and suburban bus stops outside the walled city; pharmacy in via Cesare Cant\u00f9. Municipal Library of Como in Piazzetta Venosto Lucati<br \/>\n<strong>Leisure and Catering:<\/strong> in front of the church stands Palazzo Volpi, home of the Civic Art Gallery; bars, cafes and shops of various kinds in the area<br \/>\n<strong>Other information:<\/strong> pedestrian area with limited traffic. The church depends on the Parish Community of the Walled City (tel. 031.267295), which can be contacted for information. Currently (2025) the church has become the seat of the &#8216;Chaplaincy&#8217; for the faithful who belong to the <strong>Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Description<br \/>\n<\/span>(Alberto Rovi)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Artificially raised above street level for reasons not yet clarified by archaeological investigations, it is dedicated to the soldier martyr \u2013 condemned to beheading \u2013 whose remains are venerated in Fidenza. The cult of the Saint from Fidenza radiated to central-northern Italy, and reached Como, indirectly confirming the destiny of our city as a stage on the pilgrimage route to Rome. The neoclassical lines of the fa\u00e7ade (1813) are the work of the main collaborator of the renowned Simone Cantoni, the architect Carlo Polti, who defined the advanced body of the narthex with Ionic semi-columns and an emerging tympanum. The lunette that gives light to the single nave bears a stained glass window depicting <span class=\"s1\"><i>San Donnino<\/i><\/span> by Eugenio Rossi, author of similar post-war works in the two oldest side chapels, near the main altar, dedicated to the Crucifix (frescoes by Gian Domenico Caresana, 1619-1620) and to the Virgin (frescoes by Fiammenghino, early &#8216;600, as well as the frescoes on the vault and the side painting of the <span class=\"s1\"><i>Assumption<\/i><\/span> \u2013 formerly an altarpiece,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>facing onto<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>the <span class=\"s1\"><i>Nativity of Mary<\/i><\/span> by Ludovico Pogliaghi, 1888). The polychrome wooden statue of the <span class=\"s1\"><i>titular saint<\/i><\/span> (Ezekiel Trombetta, late 1800s) is placed in a niche in the rectilinear apse wall enlarged by an effective <span class=\"s1\"><i>trompe l&#8217;oeil<\/i><\/span> by Giuseppe Coduri Vignoli (early 1800s) developed around the eighteenth-century <span class=\"s1\"><i>Moses <\/i><\/span>and <span class=\"s1\"><i>Elijah<\/i><\/span> by Francesco Silva. The Baroque altarpiece has recently been recovered. Pilasters in glossy stucco of warm intonation solemnly mark the nave, surmounted by a bright barrel vault with stuccoes in the style of Angelo Menolli (1937), and opened by two other chapels, immediately beyond the narthex: the most recent dedicated to St. Anthony of Padua, with a recent wooden statue and frescoes by Chiesa (1836-1837), the richest,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>on the left, under the patronage of the Volpi who lived in the building opposite, now the Pinacoteca: frescoes in the vault by Antonio Crespi known as Bustino (1675) within stuccoes by Giovanni Battista Barberini (1662), altar by Francesco Rusca da Campione (1630), refined marble incrustations on the walls (1647-1658), altarpiece by an unknown artist with <span class=\"s1\"><i>St. Dominic and St. Philip Neri adoring the Child Jesus entrusted by the Virgin to St. Anthony of Padua<\/i><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Two significant sculptures are the small ancient group of the <span class=\"s1\"><i>Piet\u00e0<\/i><\/span> in the left passage between the narthex and the nave and the <span class=\"s1\"><i>Crucifix<\/i><\/span>, a gift from Zaragoza, kept in the sacristy, traditionally linked to the story of the rescue of a crucifix from the Turks narrated by a painting, also in the sacristy, where a painting by Gian Domenico Caresana is also preserved, \u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><i>St. Francis in adoration of the Crucifix<\/i><\/span> (1610) adapted to the wardrobe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In the church of S. Donnino, the future inventor of the battery was baptized on February 19, 1745, by the provost Moiana with the names of Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio. A plaque, placed on the second centenary of Volta&#8217;s birth (1945) at the baptismal font, shows the text of the baptismal certificate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Volta often frequented S. Donnino, near his ancestral home, where he taught catechism. In this regard, Callisto Grandi wrote: &#8220;<\/span><i>Almost every Sunday<\/i><span class=\"s2\"> [&#8230;] <\/span><i>he, in a corner of the church of S. Donnino, is surrounded by a multitude of young men all intent on learning from his lips the catechism, which he masterfully teaches them. There is neither subservience nor severity in Volta, it is all goodness and sweet persuasion; rather than a very experienced teacher, he appears as a father in the midst of his children and with a thousand ways he captivates their love, docility, attention<\/i><span class=\"s2\"> [&#8230;] <\/span><i>Young people flocked to it in large numbers<\/i><span class=\"s2\"> [&#8230;]\u00a0<\/span><i>The Volta doctrine class was the most crowded and often many did not find a place there!&#8221;<\/i><span class=\"s2\">. On a pillar on the right of the entrance a plaque commemorates: &#8220;Here baptized, \/ Alessandro Volta \/ felt the greatness of faith \/ and teaching the catechism to children \/ he prepared, with the miracle of the torch, \/ to transform the face of the world&#8221;. Also, the funeral rite of the physicist was celebrated in the church of S. Donnino, on March 7, 1827. (S.F.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Contacts<br \/>\n<b>Parish Community of the Walled City<\/b> via Vittorio Emanuele II 94, Como; Tel. 031.267295; <a href=\"mailto:comosanfedele@gmail.com\"><span class=\"s1\">comosanfedele@gmail.com<\/span><\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parrocchiasanfedelecomo.it\"><span class=\"s1\">www.parrocchiasanfedelecomo.it<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nThe church of San Donnino has now become the seat of the &#8216;Chaplaincy&#8217; for the faithful who belong to the <b>Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church<\/b>.<br \/>\n<b>Info Point Broletto, <\/b>Via Pretorio, Como; Tel. 031.304137;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"mailto:infopointcomo@comune.como.it\">infopointcomo@comune.como.it<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s3\">; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s1\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Info Point San Giovanni Railway Station<\/b> Piazzale San Gottardo 1, Como; Mobile<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>342.0076403; <a href=\"mailto:info.stazionefs@comune.como.it\"><span class=\"s1\">info.stazionefs@comune.como.it<\/span><\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s1\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s4\"><b>To find out more:<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.parrocchiasanfedelecomo.it\/home\/\"><span class=\"s1\">Website of the Parish of S. Fedele<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nWebsite dedicated to Alessandro Volta <a href=\"http:\/\/alessandrovolta.it\/luoghi-voltiani\/como\/chiesa-di-san-donnino\/\"><span class=\"s1\">http:\/\/alessandrovolta.it\/luoghi-voltiani\/como\/chiesa-di-san-donnino\/<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a>Website dedicated to creative walks &#8220;In the footsteps of Volta&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/passeggiatecreative.it\/index.php\/project\/sulle_orme_di_volta\/\"><span class=\"s1\">http:\/\/passeggiatecreative.it\/index.php\/project\/sulle_orme_di_volta\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"nav fusion-mobile-tab-nav\"><ul class=\"nav-tabs\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\"><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-93e2b9644fca1c52fdb\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"mobile-fusion-tab-93e2b9644fca1c52fdb\" href=\"#tab-93e2b9644fca1c52fdb\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">Former Jesuit College<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tab-pane fade fusion-clearfix\" role=\"tabpanel\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-labelledby=\"fusion-tab-93e2b9644fca1c52fdb\" id=\"tab-93e2b9644fca1c52fdb\"><div class=\"awb-tab-pane-inner\">\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"longdesc-return-7932\" class=\"wp-image-13898 size-fusion-400\" tabindex=\"-1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ex-collegio-gesuiti.jpg?resize=400%2C184&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Former Jesuit College\" width=\"400\" height=\"184\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.camminacitta.it?longdesc=7932&amp;referrer=7846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ex-collegio-gesuiti.jpg?resize=200%2C92&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ex-collegio-gesuiti.jpg?resize=300%2C138&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ex-collegio-gesuiti.jpg?resize=400%2C184&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ex-collegio-gesuiti.jpg?resize=600%2C277&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ex-collegio-gesuiti.jpg?resize=768%2C354&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ex-collegio-gesuiti.jpg?resize=800%2C369&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ex-collegio-gesuiti.jpg?resize=1024%2C472&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ex-collegio-gesuiti.jpg?resize=1200%2C553&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ex-collegio-gesuiti.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"line-height: 1.6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Former Jesuit College<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Information<br \/>\n<\/span><strong>Location<\/strong>: via Lambertenghi<br \/>\n<strong>Paving<\/strong>: the street and the square are made of porphyry tiles with two side bands paved in stone<br \/>\n<strong>Services<\/strong>: parking not available inside the walled city (except at the Arena in via Vincenzo Bellini 21); urban and suburban bus stops outside the walled city. Municipal Library of Como in Piazzetta Venosto Lucati<br \/>\n<strong>Leisure and Catering:<\/strong> bars, cafes and shops of various kinds in the area<br \/>\n<strong>Other information:<\/strong> pedestrian area with limited traffic. The structure currently houses the Vincentian Fathers&#8217; festive soup kitchen, a Vincentian Family Home, the Open Door offices of the diocesan Caritas, a kitchen service for refugees also from Caritas and the cloakroom service managed by the Conferences of St. Vincent<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Description<br \/>\n<\/span>(Silvia Fasana)<\/p>\n<p>Since the second half of the sixteenth century the Jesuits had opened a college at their convent next to the church of SS. Felice and Amanzio (church of the Ges\u00f9) that dealt with the education of the young people of the city aristocracy. Two centuries later, the young Alessandro Volta also studied in this college: from 1758 to 1760 he attended the &#8220;School of Rhetoric&#8221; and began that of Philosophy, attracting the attention of a Jesuit father, Father Gerolamo Bonesi, who tried to convince him to enter the Society of Jesus. But his paternal uncle Don Alessandro, who followed his education after his father\u2019s death, withdrew him from the Jesuits and enrolled him in the Benzi Seminary. When, a few years later, in 1773, the Society of Jesus was suppressed, the government, in order not to deprive the city of the prestigious educational institute, immediately arranged to acquire the College and to continue lessons as early as the school year 1774-1775, transforming it into the Royal Gymnasium. Here were held the classes of Grammar, Humanity and Rhetoric; after some uncertainties, the chairs of Logic and Metaphysics, Experimental Physics, Geometry, Natural Law and Moral Philosophy were reactivated, which derived partly from the higher courses created by the Jesuits in their Institute, and partly from the chairs founded in the College of Doctors. As early as 1774 Alessandro Volta had been appointed Regent of the Schools of Como, making himself distinguished for his analytical evaluation of and his proposals for improving public education, thus demonstrating his concern to promote culture and education for young people. In 1755 he was assigned the chair of Experimental Physics in the Royal Gymnasium, which he held until his transfer to the University of Pavia in 1778. In this role, Volta worked hard to create a library endowment to be made available to students, but above all by laying the foundations for organizing a Physics Cabinet, procuring instruments on loan, buying or building them personally or through artisans (&#8220;the local barometer makers&#8221;), also taking care of finding the necessary funds. This Cabinet was to be at the same time a valuable teaching tool for the students (he believed that the teaching of physics should be engaging, useful and enjoyable at the same time, based on concrete experiences), but also a functional place for the scientist&#8217;s research. At the same time as the design of the laboratory, Volta introduced important educational innovations including public demonstrations of physics experiences held by students in Italian. In the Napoleonic era, the Royal Gymnasium of Como was transferred to the former monastery of the Augustinian nuns of S. Cecilia; from the school year 1803-1804 the first city high school had also been established in the same building. In 1851 the Gymnasium was merged with the Lyceum into the new Gymnasium-Lyceum (lasting eight years). In 1865 the institute was named after Alessandro Volta, to commemorate the presence of the scientist at the Royal Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pa47\" style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Contacts<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Info Point Broletto, <\/b>Via Pretorio, Como; Tel. 031.304137;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"mailto:infopointcomo@comune.como.it\">infopointcomo@comune.como.it<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Info Point San Giovanni Railway Station<\/b> Piazzale San Gottardo 1, Como; Mobile<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>342.0076403; <a href=\"mailto:info.stazionefs@comune.como.it\"><span class=\"s3\">info.stazionefs@comune.como.it<\/span><\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"nav fusion-mobile-tab-nav\"><ul class=\"nav-tabs\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\"><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-7254e673d9805ddf78c\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"mobile-fusion-tab-7254e673d9805ddf78c\" href=\"#tab-7254e673d9805ddf78c\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">Monument to Alessandro Volta<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tab-pane fade fusion-clearfix\" role=\"tabpanel\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-labelledby=\"fusion-tab-7254e673d9805ddf78c\" id=\"tab-7254e673d9805ddf78c\"><div class=\"awb-tab-pane-inner\">\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"longdesc-return-7938\" class=\"wp-image-13904 size-fusion-400\" tabindex=\"-1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/monumento-alessandro-volta.jpg?resize=400%2C868&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Monument to Alessandro Volta\" width=\"400\" height=\"868\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.camminacitta.it?longdesc=7938&amp;referrer=7846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/monumento-alessandro-volta.jpg?resize=138%2C300&amp;ssl=1 138w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/monumento-alessandro-volta.jpg?resize=200%2C434&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/monumento-alessandro-volta.jpg?resize=400%2C868&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/monumento-alessandro-volta.jpg?resize=472%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 472w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/monumento-alessandro-volta.jpg?w=590&amp;ssl=1 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"line-height: 1.6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Monument to Alessandro Volta<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Information<br \/>\n<\/span><strong>Location<\/strong>: the monument to Alessandro Volta is located in Piazza Volta in Como<br \/>\n<strong>Paving<\/strong>: Piazza Volta is paved with granulated concrete, with inserts of porphyry tiles, stone slabs and stone cubes<br \/>\n<strong>Architectural barriers<\/strong>: care must be taken because the square is not flat, but has differences in height with variations in pavement created during the last arrangement of the street furniture<br \/>\n<strong>Services<\/strong>: Car park in via Rubini; bus stops nearby; pharmacy in via Garibaldi; ATMs in via Rubini<br \/>\n<strong>Leisure and Catering<\/strong>: in the area there are bars, cafes, restaurants and shops. Benches are situated all around the monument<br \/>\n<strong>Other information:<\/strong> pedestrian zone with limited traffic<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Description<br \/>\n<\/span>(Silvia Fasana)<\/p>\n<p>In 1838 a monument dedicated to the great physicist was inaugurated in Piazza Iasca (later named after Alessandro Volta). The statue portrays the scientist in an upright position near the battery; it is the work of Pompeo Marchesi, one of the most famous sculptors of the time. The massive base, decorated with plant festoons, plumes, eagles and roundels with bas-reliefs depicting some famous Volta&#8217;s inventions, is by Francesco Durelli; a simple dedication is engraved on it: &#8220;A Volta \u2013 la Patria&#8221;. On the 1999-2000 celebrations, the Municipality of Como proceeded to enhance the square through the reconstruction of the pavement, the redesign of the street furniture and greenery, as well as the creation of special lighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pa47\" style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Contacts<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Info Point Broletto, <\/b>Via Pretorio, Como; Tel. 031.304137;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"mailto:infopointcomo@comune.como.it\">infopointcomo@comune.como.it<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Info Point San Giovanni Railway Station<\/b> Piazzale San Gottardo 1, Como; Mobile<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>342.0076403; <a href=\"mailto:info.stazionefs@comune.como.it\"><span class=\"s3\">info.stazionefs@comune.como.it<\/span><\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s4\">To find out more: Tourist site of the Municipality of Como <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/scoprire\/monumenti\/monumenti-fino-900\/statua_alessandro_volta\/index.html\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/scoprire\/monumenti\/monumenti-fino-900\/statua_alessandro_volta\/index.html<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a>Site dedicated to Alessandro Volta <a href=\"http:\/\/alessandrovolta.it\/luoghi-voltiani\/como\/monumento-e-piazza\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/alessandrovolta.it\/luoghi-voltiani\/como\/monumento-e-piazza\/<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a>Site dedicated to creative walks &#8220;In the footsteps of Volta&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/passeggiatecreative.it\/index.php\/project\/sulle_orme_di_volta\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/passeggiatecreative.it\/index.php\/project\/sulle_orme_di_volta\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"nav fusion-mobile-tab-nav\"><ul class=\"nav-tabs\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\"><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-c15026d9b8a14892c8f\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"mobile-fusion-tab-c15026d9b8a14892c8f\" href=\"#tab-c15026d9b8a14892c8f\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">Giosu\u00e8 Carducci Institute and The Hall of the Nobel Prize Winners<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tab-pane fade fusion-clearfix\" role=\"tabpanel\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-labelledby=\"fusion-tab-c15026d9b8a14892c8f\" id=\"tab-c15026d9b8a14892c8f\"><div class=\"awb-tab-pane-inner\">\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"longdesc-return-7935\" class=\"wp-image-13900 size-fusion-400\" tabindex=\"-1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/istituto-carducci.jpg?resize=400%2C221&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Giosu\u00e8 Carducci Institute and The Hall of the Nobel Prize Winners\" width=\"400\" height=\"221\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.camminacitta.it?longdesc=7935&amp;referrer=7846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/istituto-carducci.jpg?resize=200%2C110&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/istituto-carducci.jpg?resize=300%2C166&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/istituto-carducci.jpg?resize=400%2C221&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/istituto-carducci.jpg?resize=600%2C331&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/istituto-carducci.jpg?resize=768%2C424&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/istituto-carducci.jpg?resize=800%2C442&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/istituto-carducci.jpg?resize=1024%2C566&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/istituto-carducci.jpg?resize=1200%2C663&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/istituto-carducci.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"line-height: 1.6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">&#8220;Giosu\u00e8 Carducci&#8221; Institute and &#8220;The Hall of the Nobel Prize Winners&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Information<br \/>\n<\/span><strong>Location <\/strong>: The &#8220;Giosu\u00e8 Carducci&#8221; Institute is in Como in Viale Cavallotti 5 and 7<br \/>\n<strong>Paving<\/strong>: the sidewalk along the avenue is made of grit concrete tiles (edged on the sides by two bands of porphyry tiles), while at the entrances there are bands of porphyry tiles. Beyond the low concrete fence wall, surmounted by an iron gate and opened by iron gates, at number 5 a porphyry tile driveway precedes an area in grit concrete bordered by a stone band below the portico, while at number 7 a narrow concrete band precedes the stone step of access to the interior<br \/>\n<strong>Architectural barriers<\/strong>: An elevator is available to reach the first floor, where the Sala del Museo Didattico is located.<br \/>\n<strong>Access<\/strong>: the building at number 5 is accessed through an iron and glass door<br \/>\n<strong>Services<\/strong>: parking available in the area (viale Varese); Multi-storey car park in via Rubini; city and suburban bus stops nearby; pharmacy in via Garibaldi; ATMs in Via Rubini<br \/>\n<strong>Leisure and Catering<\/strong>: bars in the area; public gardens in Viale Varese<br \/>\n<strong><strong>Other information:<\/strong> <\/strong> the &#8220;Guido Casartelli&#8221; Museum in the Sala dei Nobel (Hall of the Nobel\u2019s) can be visited independently by appointment at the secretariat of the &#8220;Giosu\u00e8 Carducci&#8221; association, tel. 031.267365 (Monday to Friday, 9.00 a.m.-3.00 p.m.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Description<br \/>\n<\/span>(Silvia Fasana)<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Giosu\u00e8 Carducci&#8221; Institute was erected on the initiative of Enrico Musa with a project by the architect Cesare Mazzocchi. The building, with a triangular plan, inaugurated on September 20, 1910, was the seat of the &#8220;Pro Cultura Popolare&#8221; Association, founded in 1903 by a group of moderate democratic intellectuals from Como, including Musa himself, to promote the culture of the working classes. After ten years, the spaces were enlarged with the construction of a new adjoining building with a U-shaped plan, connected to the first by a small portico with a terraced roof. The complex was also equipped with a large garden equipped with a vegetable garden and enriched with valuable plants and recreational environments, including a pond with a bridge and a cave with an aquarium (which became part of the municipal zoo from 1937 to 1987). On the whole, a lot of very successful initiatives of the Association were held, such as technical, commercial, but also artistic and cultural training courses. The Institute was the seat of a Library for adults and a Library for children, two Popular High Schools, a Music Library, a School of Musical Culture, a School of Decorative Art, a Shorthand Classroom, a School for Housewives named after Romualdo Borletti (associated with the well-known sewing machine factory) and a nursery school where the Montessori method was applied. Above all, a small but very peculiar museum was established. The idea of a circulating Science Museum (or school museum) came to the president\/founder of the Carducci institute Enrico Musa in 1917, following the example of the Swiss school organization that rented auxiliary educational material to various school groups. He therefore decided to commission a specialized Parisian company, Maison Deyrolle, to create a complete miniature modelling and visual equipment for the teaching of all the scientific subjects included in the curricula of middle school and technical institutes, including seven sectors (Physics, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Natural History, Hygiene, Philately, Numismatics, Technology and Commodities). This teaching kit, which could be used by teachers to make their lessons more effective, was placed in special containers to make it easy to transport and then make them available to those who needed them. The catalogue of the museum&#8217;s teaching materials was published in 1922, and the loan of teaching materials became active from 1923. Musa also adapted a large room in the new wing of the Carducci building (built in 1920) as a study room, furnishing it with large cupboards with glass doors and large drawers, to house all the teaching material and named the room, according to the custom of the Institute, in memory of Guido Casartelli (1864-1915), former vice-president of the Carducci Institute. To make the appearance of the place more attractive, Musa commissioned the painter Achille Zambelli (Vigevano 1876-Gravedona 1963) to fresco the walls and ceiling with images reproducing part of the content of the educational collection, with special reference to animals and nature. The composition included some medallions with portraits of protagonists of Como culture, but things went differently, due to an important event, the International Congress of Physicists held from 12 to 17 September 1927, organized by the Municipality of Como on the Voltian Year, to celebrate the first centenary of Volta&#8217;s death. Twelve Nobel Prize winners participated in the congress, including Guglielmo Marconi (1909 Prize), Max Planck (1918 Prize) and Niels Bohr (1922 Prize). Among the participants there were also very young scientists, including Enrico Fermi, future &#8220;boy from Via Panisperna&#8221; and in turn future Nobel Laureate. To commemorate the exceptional event, their names were written in four medallions, erasing the images already imprinted previously. From that moment on, the Casartelli Room was called the &#8220;Hall of the Nobel Prize winners&#8221; and remained inextricably linked to the memory of the Voltian Year. After careful restoration, it continues to keep and exhibit in the original cabinets all the extraordinary educational material commissioned by Enrico Musa and now used exclusively for museum use\u00bb. Following the financial crisis, in 1929 Pro Cultura decided to sell the headquarters of the Institute to the Municipality, which transformed it into the Fascist Institute of Culture, in cohabitation with the Magistral Institute, which occupied most of the classrooms. Currently, the most recent building of the institute has become the headquarters of the Faculty of Law of the University of Insubria; the other building, the oldest one, still houses the headquarters of the &#8220;Giosu\u00e8 Carducci&#8221; Association, heir to the &#8220;Pro Cultura Popolare&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>(Taken from the website of the Iubilantes association www.memorieinfoto.it)<\/p>\n<p class=\"pa47\" style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Contacts<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Associazione Giosu\u00e8 &#8220;Carducci&#8221;<\/b> Viale Cavallotti 7, tel. 031.267365<br \/>\n<b>Info Point Broletto, <\/b>Via Pretorio, Como; Tel. 031.304137;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"mailto:infopointcomo@comune.como.it\">infopointcomo@comune.como.it<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Info Point San Giovanni Railway Station<\/b> Piazzale San Gottardo 1, Como; Mobile<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>342.0076403; <a href=\"mailto:info.stazionefs@comune.como.it\"><span class=\"s3\">info.stazionefs@comune.como.it<\/span><\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s4\">To find out more: Iubilantes website &#8220;Memories in photos&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memorieinfoto.it\/percorso\/como-istituto-giosu%25C3%25A8-carducci\"><span class=\"s3\">https:\/\/www.memorieinfoto.it\/percorso\/como-istituto-giosu%C3%A8-carducci<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"nav fusion-mobile-tab-nav\"><ul class=\"nav-tabs\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\"><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-41d09188eb7d8e90077\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"mobile-fusion-tab-41d09188eb7d8e90077\" href=\"#tab-41d09188eb7d8e90077\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">The Voltaic Exhibition of 1899<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tab-pane fade fusion-clearfix\" role=\"tabpanel\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-labelledby=\"fusion-tab-41d09188eb7d8e90077\" id=\"tab-41d09188eb7d8e90077\"><div class=\"awb-tab-pane-inner\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/espovolt.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"longdesc-return-7940\" class=\" wp-image-7940\" tabindex=\"-1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/espovolt.jpg?resize=263%2C402&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Voltaic Exhibition of 1899\" width=\"263\" height=\"402\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.camminacitta.it?longdesc=7940&amp;referrer=7846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/espovolt.jpg?resize=196%2C300&amp;ssl=1 196w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/espovolt.jpg?w=419&amp;ssl=1 419w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<b style=\"line-height: 1.6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"line-height: 1.6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">The Voltaic Exhibition of 1899<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Information<br \/>\n<\/span><strong>Location<\/strong>: the Voltaic Exhibition of 1899 was organized in the area currently occupied by the Municipal Gardens near the lake.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Description<br \/>\n<\/span>(Silvia Fasana)<\/p>\n<p>In 1899 the city of Como commemorated the physicist Alessandro Volta on the centenary of the invention of the voltaic battery with a great Exhibition, able to rival the Universal Expositions held in large European and American cities. The Como engineer Eugenio Linati designed a vast exhibition area in the area currently occupied by the Municipal Gardens near the lake, covering an exhibition area of about 15,000 square meters. The main idea of his project was to create a single pavilion that would allow a continuous visit, always indoors, of the objects on display: from Volta\u2019s memorabilia to new technical discoveries, to the most refined products of the silk industry for which Como was famous. The main fa\u00e7ade of the central pavilion, facing the city, was built in Empire style, with reference to the time of Alessandro Volta. At the ends of the loggia rose two tall towers in the form of an electric battery; in one of the two there was a very modern elevator, reaching a belvedere from which you could enjoy an unprecedented view of the city. Separated from the rest of the exhibition was the art pavilion, where numerous examples of historical artistic styles, chosen from the masterpieces scattered throughout the territory, were presented together with contemporary artists. The Voltaic Exhibition, the first in unified Italy, was a great success; it was visited by the main political authorities of the time, including King Umberto I, accompanied by his wife Margherita and the heir to the throne Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, with his spouse, Elena from Montenegro. The pavilions were flanked by a series of promotional initiatives: specially designed posters, countless celebratory postcards, rallies (such as the International Congress of Telegraphists, the National Congress of Electricians, the General Assemblies of the Italian Electrotechnical Association and the Italian Physical Society) and social outings. Particular attention was paid to music: Giacomo Puccini, one of the greatest musicians of the time, composed a march significantly entitled Electric Shock, while Lorenzo Perosi granted the world premiere of his oratorio Il Natale del Redentore to the city of Como. On July 8, 1899, however, a furious fire, provoked by a cigarette butt, completely destroyed, in less than an hour, the pavilions of the exhibition including the shed that housed the first examples registered in the Como tramway network, with the exception of the artistic pavilion, due to its isolated location. However, many relics were recovered. A subscription was immediately opened for the reconstruction of the exhibition in which King Umberto I also participated. Based on a project by the architect Linati, the reconstruction was completed in a month and was reopened on 20 August 1899. \u2028With the great Voltaic Exhibition of 1899, the history of electric lighting began in Como. In that year the Baragiola brothers, owners of the Grand Hotel Plinius, were the first to equip the hotel and their homes with electric lighting systems. In the following year the Comense Electric Company &#8220;A. Volta&#8221; was established, in which the main entrepreneurs of the area participated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Read more:Wikipedia <a href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Celebrazioni_voltiane\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Celebrazioni_voltianeSito dedicated to Alessandro Volta <\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/alessandrovolta.it\/celebrazioni-voltiane\/1899-100-anni-dalla-pila\/\"><span class=\"s2\">http:\/\/alessandrovolta.it\/celebrazioni-voltiane\/1899-100-anni-dalla-pila\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">To find out more about the other city events in honour of Alessandro Volta:Wikipedia <a href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Celebrazioni_voltiane\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Celebrazioni_voltianeSito dedicated to Alessandro Volta <\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/alessandrovolta.it\/celebrazioni-voltiane\/\"><span class=\"s2\">http:\/\/alessandrovolta.it\/celebrazioni-voltiane\/<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a>Iubilantes website &#8220;Memories in photos&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memorieinfoto.it\/percorso\/lesposizione-voltiana-del-1899\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/www.memorieinfoto.it\/percorso\/lesposizione-voltiana-del-1899<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"nav fusion-mobile-tab-nav\"><ul class=\"nav-tabs\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\"><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-de0c556019b0d39897d\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"mobile-fusion-tab-de0c556019b0d39897d\" href=\"#tab-de0c556019b0d39897d\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">The Life Electric<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tab-pane fade fusion-clearfix\" role=\"tabpanel\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-labelledby=\"fusion-tab-de0c556019b0d39897d\" id=\"tab-de0c556019b0d39897d\"><div class=\"awb-tab-pane-inner\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/The_Life_Electric2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"longdesc-return-7944\" class=\" wp-image-7944\" tabindex=\"-1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/The_Life_Electric2.jpg?resize=503%2C335&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Life Electric\" width=\"503\" height=\"335\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.camminacitta.it?longdesc=7944&amp;referrer=7846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/The_Life_Electric2.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/The_Life_Electric2.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<b style=\"line-height: 1.6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"line-height: 1.6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><em>&#8220;The Life Electric&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Information<br \/>\n<\/span><strong>Location:<\/strong> the monument <em>&#8220;The Life Electric&#8221;<\/em> is located at the end of the &#8220;Pietro Caldirola&#8221; breakwater, in Como<br \/>\n<strong>Paving<\/strong>: the breakwater is made of porphyry tiles (with a small interruption of 10 meters in concrete after about 60 meters from the beginning). The widening at the end of the dam is also made of porphyry tiles with white grit concrete bands<br \/>\n<strong>Architectural barriers<\/strong>: &#8211;<br \/>\n<strong>Access<\/strong>: the monument is accessed from the &#8220;Pietro Caldirola&#8221; breakwater<br \/>\n<strong>Services<\/strong>: &#8211;<br \/>\n<strong>Leisure and Catering<\/strong>: bar in the public gardens<br \/>\n<strong>Other information:<\/strong> the breakwater is protected on both sides by railings 1.20 meters high<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Description<br \/>\n<\/span>(Silvia Fasana)<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the breakwater that extends into the first basin of Lake Como, in front of Piazza Cavour, stands the last monument built in chronological order (2015) to honour Alessandro Volta: &#8220;The Life Electric&#8221;, designed by the Polish naturalized American architect Daniel Libeskind, and donated to the city by the association \u201cFriends of Como\u201d and the \u201cComo Tourist Consortium\u201d, supported by the Municipality of Como and numerous sponsors. It is a steel structure, about 13.75 meters high, which has the shape of two sinusoids that face each other and play with each other between curves and movement; as Libeskind himself wrote: &#8220;it is inspired by the electric voltage between two poles of a battery, Volta&#8217;s great gift to humanity. The form of the installation is pivotal in my constant research on the architectural representation of energy. The work joins the elements: light, wind and water. An installation, a physical and ideal gateway open to the twenty-first century.&#8221; The monument is placed above a circular fountain about one meter high and surrounded by a white grained concrete seat. The biodynamically variable LED lighting, the subject of careful design, creates plays of light with extraordinary optical effects designed to be as amazing as they are delicate. The effect of the light sources reflecting in the lake merges with that created by a water misting system, to make the work appear as if suspended on a cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Contacts<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Info Point Broletto, <\/b>Via Pretorio, Como; Tel. 031.304137;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"mailto:infopointcomo@comune.como.it\">infopointcomo@comune.como.it<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Info Point San Giovanni Railway Station<\/b> Piazzale San Gottardo 1, Como; Mobile<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>342.0076403; <a href=\"mailto:info.stazionefs@comune.como.it\"><span class=\"s3\">info.stazionefs@comune.como.it<\/span><\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s4\">To find out more: Monument website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeelectric.it\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.lifeelectric.it\/ <\/span><\/a><br \/>\nTourist site of the Municipality of Como <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/scoprire\/monumenti\/monumenti-dal-900\/life-electric\/index.html\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/scoprire\/monumenti\/monumenti-dal-900\/life-electric\/index.html<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a>Website of the Municipality of Como <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comune.como.it\/it\/progetti-home\/life-elettric.html\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.comune.como.it\/it\/progetti-home\/life-elettric.html<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a>Site dedicated to creative walks &#8220;In the footsteps of Volta&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/passeggiatecreative.it\/index.php\/project\/sulle_orme_di_volta\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/passeggiatecreative.it\/index.php\/project\/sulle_orme_di_volta\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Read more about Daniel Libeskind: Daniel Libeskind&#8217;s website <a href=\"http:\/\/libeskind.com\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/libeskind.com\/<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a>Daniel Libeskind on Wikipedia <a href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daniel_Libeskind\"><span class=\"s3\">https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daniel_Libeskind<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"nav fusion-mobile-tab-nav\"><ul class=\"nav-tabs\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\"><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-5c98f4be01e7f30058a\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"mobile-fusion-tab-5c98f4be01e7f30058a\" href=\"#tab-5c98f4be01e7f30058a\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">The Voltaic Temple<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tab-pane fade fusion-clearfix\" role=\"tabpanel\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-labelledby=\"fusion-tab-5c98f4be01e7f30058a\" id=\"tab-5c98f4be01e7f30058a\"><div class=\"awb-tab-pane-inner\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tempio-voltiano.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"longdesc-return-7942\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7942\" tabindex=\"-1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tempio-voltiano.jpg?resize=432%2C336&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Como,The Voltaic Temple\" width=\"432\" height=\"336\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.camminacitta.it?longdesc=7942&amp;referrer=7846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tempio-voltiano.jpg?resize=300%2C233&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tempio-voltiano.jpg?w=432&amp;ssl=1 432w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<b style=\"line-height: 1.6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"line-height: 1.6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">The Voltaic Temple<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Information<br \/>\n<\/span><strong>Location:<\/strong> the Voltaic Temple is in Viale Marconi 1 in Como<br \/>\n<strong>Paving<\/strong>: around the Temple there is a two-meter circular band of granite cubes, which encloses, one on each side, four green flowerbeds. The steps of the two access stairs to the vestibule are made of granite. The floor of the vestibule is made of stone slabs. The rich floor of the round hall and the smaller rooms is a mosaic of marble and different stones<br \/>\n<strong>Architectural barriers<\/strong>: the circular band of granite cubes around the Temple is bordered by a wrought iron chain supported by pillars one meter high. The vestibule in front of the fa\u00e7ade is accessed via two side staircases of fifteen low steps; the landing is protected on the front side by three stone parallelepipeds that occupy the space between the four columns. The door leads into a small atrium about 80 centimetres deep, closed at the bottom by another iron and glass door with two leaves<br \/>\n<strong>Access<\/strong>: access from the entrance in Viale Marconi 1<br \/>\n<strong>Services<\/strong>: parking available in the adjacent areas<br \/>\n<strong>Leisure and Catering<\/strong>: bar in the area; public garden<br \/>\n<strong>Other information:<\/strong> the Volta Temple is part of the Museum System of the City of Como. It can be visited from Tuesday to Sunday; for timetables and costs see the website of the Civic Museums of Como http:\/\/museicivici.comune.como.it\/index.php?page=tempio-voltiano<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Description<br \/>\n<\/span>(Silvia Fasana)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">On the occasion of the Second Voltaic Exhibition held at Villa Olmo to celebrate the<i> centenary of Alessandro Volta&#8217;s death,<\/i> the industrialist Francesco Somaini donated to the city the capital necessary for the construction of a place to honour the memory of the great physicist. The Volta Temple was designed by the architect Federico Frigerio in neoclassical style (in homage to the time when the scientist lived), partly inspired by the Pantheon in Rome and inaugurated in July 1928. This is how Frigerio himself described it in April 1926: &#8220;<i>It is very simple in terms of planimetric layout and structure. It essentially consists of a circular hall of almost twelve meters in net diameter crowned by a dome with a central light, in the form of a Pantheon<\/i>\u00bb. It was made of reinforced concrete, covered on the outside with karst stone from Aurisina (like the tower of the nearby War Memorial, inaugurated in 1933) with decorations in Musso marble. It is preceded by a vestibule, accessed by two side staircases. The tympanum is adorned with a frieze, where geniuses hold a medallion with the profile of the scientist. On the sides of the entrance stand the two statues depicting <i>Science<\/i> and <i>Faith<\/i>, the work of Carlo and Luigi Rigola. Inside, four corner pillars and eight marble columns support the dome; in the rich entablature there is a frieze where<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>the dedicatory inscription in gilded bronze letters stands out. In the parapet band of the loggia there are four stucco high-relief panels, the work of Pietro Clerici, representing <i>Episodes from the life of Volta; <\/i>Between these reliefs, sixteen roundels bearing the most significant dates of his life alternate in pairs. On the ground floor it is possible to retrace Volta&#8217;s scientific itinerary, from his experiments on gases and thermal phenomena, to experiments in electricity and the battery, through the exhibition of a great variety of Volta&#8217;s apparatus, machines and instruments. They are mostly reconstructions, while just a few originals were saved from the fire that destroyed the Great Exhibition of 1899. In the upper loggia, on the other hand, the figure of Volta is presented through the story of his life, his relationships with his family, his ties with the city, the public offices and awards that were attributed to him, as well as the various celebrations in his honour after his death.<\/p>\n<p>Contacts<br \/>\n<b>Tempio Voltiano<\/b> Viale Marconi 1, Como; Tel. 031.574705; <a href=\"mailto:musei.civici@comune.como.it\"><span class=\"s1\">musei.civici@comune.como.it<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0342.0076403; <a href=\"mailto:ufficioturismo@comune.como.it\"><span class=\"s1\">ufficioturismo@comune.como.it<\/span><\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s1\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Info Point Broletto, <\/b>Via Pretorio, Como; Tel. 031.304137; <span class=\"s3\"><a href=\"mailto:infopointcomo@comune.como.it\">infopointcomo@comune.como.it<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s4\">; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s1\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Info Point San Giovanni Railway Station<\/b> Piazzale San Gottardo 1, Como; Mobile<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>342.0076403; <a href=\"mailto:info.stazionefs@comune.como.it\"><span class=\"s1\">info.stazionefs@comune.como.it<\/span><\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s1\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">To find out more:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comune.como.it\/it\/search\/index.html\"><span class=\"s1\">Website of the Civic Museums of Como<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nTourist website of the Municipality of Como <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/scoprire\/musei\/tempio_voltiano\/index.html\"><span class=\"s1\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/scoprire\/musei\/tempio_voltiano\/index.html<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/alessandrovolta.it\/luoghi-voltiani\/como\/tempio-a-lago\/%2520e%2520http:\/alessandrovolta.it\/musei-e-mostre\/musei-permanenti\/tempio-voltiano-como\/\"><span class=\"s1\">Website dedicated to Alessandro Volta <\/span><\/a><br \/>\nWebsite dedicated to creative walks &#8220;In the footsteps of Volta&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/passeggiatecreative.it\/index.php\/project\/sulle_orme_di_volta\/\"><span class=\"s1\">http:\/\/passeggiatecreative.it\/index.php\/project\/sulle_orme_di_volta\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><br \/>\n<p><a title=\"Como Percorso 6 - Tappa 2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.camminacitta.it\/en\/como-percorso-6\/como-percorso-6-tappa-2\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Stage 2 \u2013 Along the Cosia valley<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-tabs fusion-tabs-2 classic awb-tabs-transition awb-tabs-transition-fade vertical-tabs icon-position-left mobile-mode-accordion\" style=\"--awb-title-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-title-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-title-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-title-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-alignment:start;--awb-inactive-color:#f9f9fb;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-border-color:#e2e2e2;--awb-active-border-color:#ff9d00;--awb-active-border-size:3px;--awb-transition-speed:300ms;--awb-border-size:1px;\"><div class=\"nav\"><ul class=\"nav-tabs\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\"><li class=\"active\" role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-f495e38b137b4ca8fc4\" aria-selected=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\" id=\"fusion-tab-f495e38b137b4ca8fc4\" href=\"#tab-f495e38b137b4ca8fc4\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">Beretta Mill<\/h4><\/a><\/li><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-9ef72a303db93623122\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"fusion-tab-9ef72a303db93623122\" href=\"#tab-9ef72a303db93623122\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">Alessandro Volta's country house in Campora<\/h4><\/a><\/li><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-38bee212847193d68b5\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"fusion-tab-38bee212847193d68b5\" href=\"#tab-38bee212847193d68b5\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">Valley of the Cosia stream<\/h4><\/a><\/li><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-8cf0590765e98e984b0\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"fusion-tab-8cf0590765e98e984b0\" href=\"#tab-8cf0590765e98e984b0\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">Tomb of Alessandro Volta<\/h4><\/a><\/li><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-0f6cbb7510db9f93881\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"fusion-tab-0f6cbb7510db9f93881\" href=\"#tab-0f6cbb7510db9f93881\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">Church of S. Cecilia in Camnago Volta<\/h4><\/a><\/li><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-d3ff270af801b9792cb\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"fusion-tab-d3ff270af801b9792cb\" href=\"#tab-d3ff270af801b9792cb\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">Volta Walk<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tab-content\"><div class=\"nav fusion-mobile-tab-nav\"><ul class=\"nav-tabs\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\"><li class=\"active\" role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-f495e38b137b4ca8fc4\" aria-selected=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\" id=\"mobile-fusion-tab-f495e38b137b4ca8fc4\" href=\"#tab-f495e38b137b4ca8fc4\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">Beretta Mill<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tab-pane fade fusion-clearfix in active\" role=\"tabpanel\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-labelledby=\"fusion-tab-f495e38b137b4ca8fc4\" id=\"tab-f495e38b137b4ca8fc4\"><div class=\"awb-tab-pane-inner\">\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"longdesc-return-8034\" class=\"wp-image-13906 size-fusion-400\" tabindex=\"-1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/mulino-beretta.jpg?resize=400%2C289&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Beretta Mill\" width=\"400\" height=\"289\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.camminacitta.it?longdesc=8034&amp;referrer=7846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/mulino-beretta.jpg?resize=200%2C145&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/mulino-beretta.jpg?resize=300%2C217&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/mulino-beretta.jpg?resize=400%2C289&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/mulino-beretta.jpg?resize=600%2C434&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/mulino-beretta.jpg?resize=768%2C555&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/mulino-beretta.jpg?resize=800%2C578&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/mulino-beretta.jpg?resize=1024%2C740&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/mulino-beretta.jpg?resize=1200%2C867&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/mulino-beretta.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"line-height: 1.6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Beretta Mill<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Information<br \/>\n<\/span><strong>Location<\/strong>: the ancient Beretta Mill is located in via Navedano 21 in Camnago Volta-Como<br \/>\n<strong>Paving<\/strong>: the courtyard is variously paved with sections of gravel, paving, concrete and cobblestones<br \/>\n<strong>Architectural barriers<\/strong>: to access the room where the mill equipment is located it is necessary to cross a stone threshold<br \/>\n<strong>Access<\/strong>: from the courtyard in via Navedano 21<br \/>\n<strong>Services<\/strong>: city bus stop in via Vincenzo Franchi; ATM and shop in via della Pila<br \/>\n<strong>Leisure and Catering<\/strong>: two restaurants in the various hamlets of Camnago<br \/>\n<strong>Other information:<\/strong> contact directly the owner, the Muscionico family, tel. 031.561363, cell. 334.9529224<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Description<br \/>\n<\/span>(Franca Ronchetti Bralla)<\/p>\n<p>The milling activity has been practiced along the Cosia Valley from ancient times; at the beginning of Via Pannilani, you can still see a slightly yellowed marble plaque, indicating that there were three mills about 0.8 km away. Until shortly after the end of the Second World War, five mills were still operating in Camnago Volta: the Longatti mill in Campora, the Trombetta mill in the area below the current New Cemetery, the Malacrida mill near the Navedano, once the place of a restaurant of the same name, the Arcellaschi mill in Ravanera, now replaced by a residential villa, and the Beretta mill under the Paradiso farmhouse. Then, at the beginning of the fifties of the last century, four mills slowly disappeared and only the Beretta Mill resisted the competition of the most sophisticated and inexorable electric millstones until 1983, when it ceased activity, while maintaining its equipment (hoppers, millstones, gears, tumblers). It is a true heirloom that still preserves intact all its apparatus and is the only one to have maintained its original structure, complete with an external wooden wheel. This water mill, which was a low-cost energy source, now represents a now remote art, that of milling, and constitutes a heritage of historical memory that must remain indelible in order to show enthusiasts the &#8220;jaws&#8221; of the old millstones from which flours of all kinds came out: local flour, the finest and lightest in colour, the coveted one for polenta, then the flour for yellow bread (now disappeared from our tables) and the wholemeal wheat and rye flour. Its history is very ancient: at the time of Volta there was already a convent with an adjoining mill (it is registered in 1720), purchased by the Beretta family in 1892. The mill, located in a typical Lombard &#8220;U&#8221; shaped courtyard, preserves the memory of ancient peasant life; at the entrance, in fact, on the wall on the left, you can admire a devotional fresco, recently restored, depicting the Madonna and Child: behind her adoring angels and on the sides, as if to help her watch over the house and its inhabitants, Sant&#8217;Antonio Abate and San Rocco, protectors from the epidemics of men and domestic animals.<br \/>\nFrom the courtyard you can still admire the mill wheel, located in the open air, protected by a cover, between the old part of the farmhouse and the recently built one. When the mill was in operation, a small mill race fed by the Roggia Molinara descended from the road in front of it, which, at a certain point, made a difference in height and made the water roar, in a cascade, onto the huge larch wheel. The interior of the mill has wooden beams. A staircase leads to the upper floor, also consisting of a wooden platform. Upstairs there is the millstone department surmounted by large hoppers that poured grains of wheat then crushed by the violent friction of two rotating stone surfaces and past downstairs by a perfect set of conveyor belts, where the flour thus obtained was selected from the bran passing over several sieves. The work rate of the old mill was seventy to eighty kilos of ground flour per hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pa47\" style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Contacts<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Muscionico Family<\/b> Tel. 031.561363, 334.9529224<br \/>\n<b>Info Point Broletto, <\/b>Via Pretorio, Como; Tel. 031.304137; <span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"mailto:infopointcomo@comune.como.it\">infopointcomo@comune.como.it<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Info Point San Giovanni Railway Station<\/b> Piazzale San Gottardo 1, Como; Mobile<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>342.0076403; <a href=\"mailto:info.stazionefs@comune.como.it\"><span class=\"s3\">info.stazionefs@comune.como.it<\/span><\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"nav fusion-mobile-tab-nav\"><ul class=\"nav-tabs\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\"><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-9ef72a303db93623122\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"mobile-fusion-tab-9ef72a303db93623122\" href=\"#tab-9ef72a303db93623122\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">Alessandro Volta's country house in Campora<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tab-pane fade fusion-clearfix\" role=\"tabpanel\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-labelledby=\"fusion-tab-9ef72a303db93623122\" id=\"tab-9ef72a303db93623122\"><div class=\"awb-tab-pane-inner\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CASA-CAMPORArid.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"longdesc-return-8014\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8014\" tabindex=\"-1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CASA-CAMPORArid.jpg?resize=500%2C281&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Alessandro Volta's country house in Campora\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.camminacitta.it?longdesc=8014&amp;referrer=7846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CASA-CAMPORArid.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CASA-CAMPORArid.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"line-height: 1.6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Alessandro Volta&#8217;s country house in Campora<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Information<br \/>\n<\/span><strong>Location<\/strong>: the building that was the country villa of Volta is located in via Campora 1 in Camnago Volta-Como<br \/>\n<strong>Paving<\/strong>: via Campora is paved; at the entrance gate to the property there is a stone strip, while the driveway to the house is partly paved in stone, partly lawn<br \/>\n<strong>Architectural barriers<\/strong>: &#8211;<br \/>\n<strong>Access<\/strong>: it can be accessed from via Campora or via Clerici, as the house is at the intersection of the two streets with via Ravanera<br \/>\n<strong>Services<\/strong>: the terminus of the city bus is right in front of the house, at which there is a fountain and a bench. A stone bench is also leaning against the garden fence wall, to the right of the entrance gate. ATM and shop in via della Pila<br \/>\n<strong>Leisure and Catering<\/strong>: two restaurants in the various hamlets of Camnago<br \/>\n<strong>Other information:<\/strong> the building is now used as private homes and therefore cannot be visited<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Description<br \/>\n<\/span>(Silvia Fasana)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Volta family&#8217;s house was in the centre of Como, in the Contrada di Porta Nuova, but during his childhood Alessandro Volta spent a lot of time in the villa of Campora in Camnago, with an adjoining agricultural courtyard, and during the last years of his life he moved there in the spring and summer months. Maurizio Monti, in the <i>Life of Alessandro Volta<\/i>, contained in <i>Memorie comensi. <\/i>Writings collected for the Congress of Agronomists that was to take place in Como in the autumn of 1865 (1867) wrote: \u00ab<i>In his youth, his villa was Campora, and he liked the less solitary residence of Lazzate. In Campora he gladly mingled with the peasants on the farm, in the farmyard and on the benches of the rustic kitchen. He told them about the strangest things in the world, showed them some experiments in physics, or proposed riddles. Lying down at the time of the grape harvest at their tables a little happier than usual, he ate macaroni, polenta, rice with them <\/i>[&#8230;] <i>Tireless in his studies, he persevered for hours, forgetting food and rest; nor did he feel the impressions of heat and cold, although in other times he was jealous of them. Logical in the search for facts, exact to the point of scruple in evaluating and comparing them in the most minute circumstances<\/i>&#8220;. Volta was also interested in agronomy: during his study trip to various centres of Switzerland, Alsace and Savoy in 1777, he saw in the small village of Aiguebelle, some peasants who were picking strange tubers, potatoes, imported to Europe after the discovery of America, but not yet widespread in Italy. Moved by curiosity, he wanted to try them, take them home (also showing them to his noblewoman friend Teresa Ciceri Castiglioni) and promoted their cultivation, starting from his land in Camnago Volta. For her part, the physicist&#8217;s wife, Teresa Pellegrini, was a passionate breeder of silkworms on the estates of Campora and Lazzate and the scientist himself had been interested in silk processing on several occasions. Campora was definitely Alessandro Volta&#8217;s favourite residence; in fact, he wrote, full of nostalgia, about this to his brother in 1781 while he was in Geneva for study reasons: &#8220;<i>In Campora there will be our priests who will leaf through breviary and tobacco, and empty glasses, and after lunch we will climb together on the mountains among the chestnut hedges, the brambles of the brushwood.<\/i>.&#8217;. The villa that once belonged to Volta is now a private home; on the side of the entrance gate to the property, on the right, a plaque recalls: <i>&#8220;It was this solitary house \/ the favourite autumn home \/ of \/ Alessandro Volta \/ in the 1st centenary of the invention of the battery&#8221;.<\/i> Particularly striking is the large lime tree standing on the left side of the entrance gate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pa47\" style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Contacts<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Info Point Broletto, <\/b>Via Pretorio, Como; Tel. 031.304137;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"mailto:infopointcomo@comune.como.it\">infopointcomo@comune.como.it<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Info Point San Giovanni Railway Station<\/b> Piazzale San Gottardo 1, Como; Mobile<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>342.0076403; <a href=\"mailto:info.stazionefs@comune.como.it\"><span class=\"s3\">info.stazionefs@comune.como.it<\/span><\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s4\">To find out more: Website dedicated to Alessandro Volta <a href=\"http:\/\/alessandrovolta.it\/luoghi-voltiani\/como\/villa-di-campora\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/alessandrovolta.it\/luoghi-voltiani\/como\/villa-di-campora\/<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nSite dedicated to creative walks &#8220;In the footsteps of Volta&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/passeggiatecreative.it\/index.php\/project\/sulle_orme_di_volta\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/passeggiatecreative.it\/index.php\/project\/sulle_orme_di_volta\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"nav fusion-mobile-tab-nav\"><ul class=\"nav-tabs\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\"><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-38bee212847193d68b5\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"mobile-fusion-tab-38bee212847193d68b5\" href=\"#tab-38bee212847193d68b5\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">Valley of the Cosia stream<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tab-pane fade fusion-clearfix\" role=\"tabpanel\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-labelledby=\"fusion-tab-38bee212847193d68b5\" id=\"tab-38bee212847193d68b5\"><div class=\"awb-tab-pane-inner\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/valle_cosiaridDEF.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"longdesc-return-8012\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8012\" tabindex=\"-1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/valle_cosiaridDEF.jpg?resize=400%2C533&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Valley of the Cosia stream\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.camminacitta.it?longdesc=8012&amp;referrer=7846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/valle_cosiaridDEF.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/valle_cosiaridDEF.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"line-height: 1.6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Valley of the Cosia stream<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Description<br \/>\n<\/span>(Silvia Fasana)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The valley of the Cosia stream represents a varied mosaic of natural environments, dominated by the watercourse with its waterfalls, gorges, the famous &#8220;bottini&#8221; (also called the &#8220;potholes of the giants&#8221;), but also the woods, the meadows, alongside the remains that human activity has left over the centuries. This is one of those places &#8220;of memory&#8221;, where you can still breathe atmospheres &#8220;of the past&#8221;, quite unusual for an urban suburb. The Cosia stream originates from numerous springs located on the southern slopes of Mount Bolettone and flows into Lake Como. From a geological point of view, its valley is carved into sedimentary rock formations of marine origin dating back to the Jurassic, in some of which \u2013 such as the Rosso Ammonitico \u2013 fossils of ancient marine molluscs can be found. In more recent geological times, during the Quaternary era, the area was shaped by the action of glaciers and above all by the Cosia itself, which engraved and shaped the valley in which it flows. In particular, in the area below the village of Tavernerio, the stream has dug gorges up to 20 meters deep, imposing and scenic; on the steep escarpments it is still possible to read the traces left by the watercourse, which once flowed at higher altitudes than today. Another form of erosion visible along the course of the Cosia is that of the &#8220;potholes of the giants&#8221;, locally called &#8220;<i>bottini<\/i>&#8220;, or deep and smooth cavities, produced by the mechanical erosion exerted on the limestone rocks of the stream bed by the swirling rotary motion of sand and gravel carried by the current. These environments were most likely the scene of Volta&#8217;s first naturalistic discoveries as a child. His friend Giulio Cesare Gattoni wrote that <i>&#8220;he then submerged himself in a spring of water in Monteverde to discover a vein of gold from which sections were detached as some peasants gave us to understand but he found only yellow mica leaves&#8221;.<\/i> In the Cosia valley, despite growing anthropogenic pressure, especially towards its end, there are still several well-preserved natural environments, typical of the southern slopes of the Larian Triangle. The green mosaic ranges from hygrophilous forests to White Willow (<i>Salix alba<\/i>) and Black Alder (<i>Alnus glutinosa<\/i>), species that require high soil moisture, characteristic of the areas closest to watercourses; to the thermophilic forests of Downy Oak (<i>Quercus pubescens<\/i>), Hornbeam (<i>Ostrya carpinifolia<\/i>) and Manna ash (<i>Fraxinus ornus<\/i>), open and bright, typical of well-exposed south facing locations; to the mesophilous forests of Hornbeam (<i>Carpinus betulus<\/i>) and Ash (<i>Fraxinus excelsior<\/i>), cool and shady accompanied by the Linden (<i>Tilia platyphyllos<\/i>) and the Oak (<i>Quercus petraea<\/i>); to the shady beech forests dominated by the Beech (<i>Fagus sylvatica<\/i>), characteristic of altitudes above 800 meters. At even higher altitudes we find large grasslands, carved over the centuries by man to provide hay for livestock and enlivened by colourful blooms of Daffodils (<i>Narcissus poeticus<\/i>, <i>N. radiiflorus<\/i>), Bluebells (<i>Campanula<\/i> sp), Wild Lilies (<i>Lilium croceum<\/i>, <i>Lilium martagon<\/i>); since<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>pastoral activity has been abandoned, these spaces tend to be gradually reconquered by pioneer thickets of Birch (<i>Betula pendula<\/i>) and Hazelnut (<i>Corylus avellana<\/i>), a prelude to an imminent return of the beech forest. It is also said that Volta, now mature, had become fond of a boy from Camnago, a certain Ambrogio Longatti, who assisted him in his scientific experiments on electricity in contrast with Galvani, making himself available to go and get him frogs that hid in the caves of the Cosia valley. In February 2017 the municipal councils of Tavernerio, Como and Albese con Cassano approved the agreement for the establishment and management of the <i>Local Park of Supra-municipal Interest of the Cosia Valley<\/i>, thanks also to the great awareness-raising work conducted for years by the association &#8220;La Citt\u00e0 Possibile Como&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">To find out more: Tourist site of the Larian Triangle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.triangololariano.it\/it\/il-torrente-cosia-e-la-sua-valle.aspx\"><span class=\"s1\">http:\/\/www.triangololariano.it\/it\/il-torrente-cosia-e-la-sua-valle.aspx<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a>Blog dedicated to the Park by La Citt\u00e0 Possibile Como <a href=\"http:\/\/parcodelcosia.blogspot.it\/\"><span class=\"s1\">http:\/\/parcodelcosia.blogspot.it\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"nav fusion-mobile-tab-nav\"><ul class=\"nav-tabs\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\"><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-8cf0590765e98e984b0\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"mobile-fusion-tab-8cf0590765e98e984b0\" href=\"#tab-8cf0590765e98e984b0\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">Tomb of Alessandro Volta<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tab-pane fade fusion-clearfix\" role=\"tabpanel\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-labelledby=\"fusion-tab-8cf0590765e98e984b0\" id=\"tab-8cf0590765e98e984b0\"><div class=\"awb-tab-pane-inner\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG-20171113-WA0001TOMBArid.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7955 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG-20171113-WA0001TOMBArid.jpg?resize=336%2C448&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tomb of Alessandro Volta\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG-20171113-WA0001TOMBArid.jpg?resize=224%2C300&amp;ssl=1 224w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG-20171113-WA0001TOMBArid.jpg?w=336&amp;ssl=1 336w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"line-height: 1.6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Tomb of Alessandro Volta<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Information<br \/>\n<\/span><strong>Location<\/strong>: the tomb of Alessandro Volta is in the centre of the old cemetery of Camnago Volta-Como, in via Clerici<br \/>\n<strong>Paving<\/strong>: via Clerici is paved; the widening facing the entrance to the cemetery is paved with porphyry cubes. The steps leading to the cemetery are made of stone; The landing at the top of the steps and the driveway leading to the temple are paved with stone tiles. The circular steps leading to the widening, on which the temple was built, are made of stone and so is the widening; the floor of the temple is paved as a mosaic<br \/>\n<strong>Architectural barriers<\/strong>: to access the cemetery you have to climb six steps; there are three more steps to access the circular widening where the temple is located<br \/>\n<strong>Access<\/strong>: the old cemetery of Camnago can be accessed from Via Clerici, passing through an electric wrought iron gate<br \/>\n<strong>Services<\/strong>: parking outside the new cemetery of Camnago, about eighty meters further coming from the centre; urban bus stop; ATM and shop in via della Pila<br \/>\n<strong>Leisure and Catering<\/strong>: in the various hamlets of Camnago there are two restaurants<br \/>\n<strong><strong>Other information:<\/strong> for opening hours see the website of the Municipality of Como http:\/\/www.comune.como.it\/it\/servizi\/cimiteri-e-funerali\/cimiteri-luoghi-e-orari\/<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Description<br \/>\n<\/span>(Silvia Fasana)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">When Alessandro Volta died, on March 5, 1827, on his express wish, he was buried in a grave dug into the bare earth of the first cemetery of Camnago (then an autonomous municipality), located downstream of the road that connects the square in front of the church to Campora. The tomb, according to what Maurizio Monti writes in <i>La Storia di Como<\/i> (1832) <i>&#8220;was distinguished by a wooden cross that bore the inscription: &#8216;Here lie the remains of Count Cavaliere Alessandro Volta, taken from the living on March 5, 1827, at the age of 82&#8242;&#8221;.<\/i> This wish was dictated by the close bond that united the scientist to the small town where his favourite country house stood and where he used to spend the summer periods. His wife and children, however, wanted to give a more dignified burial to his remains, commissioning the temple that we can still see, inaugurated on March 5, 1831, around which the Municipality created a new cemetery. Some of the scientist&#8217;s family members are also buried in the temple. Designed by Melchiorre Nosetti in pure neoclassical style, the temple stands on a circular widening, accessed by three curved steps at the front. On the sides of the access, two stone plaque stands are resting on the steps that support two bronze plaques; the left one donated by &#8220;The Electrical students of England&#8221; in 1903 and the right one by the Catholic students in 1899. Other commemorative plaques are placed inside the cemetery. The structure, made of stone blocks, has a circular plan and is surmounted by a metal dome with a skylight. In the upper part it has a marble frieze with reliefs representing <i>triumphal crowns<\/i> and <i>Volta&#8217;s inventions<\/i>. On the sides of the entrance, surmounted by an architrave with the inscription in bronze letters &#8220;To Alessandro Volta \/ his widow and children&#8221;, two sandstone statues by Luigi Argenti have been placed: the one on the left depicts <i>Faith<\/i> praying, while the other represents <i>Science<\/i> crying. Inside, on the back wall, a niche houses the marble sarcophagus, the work of Giuseppe Bayer, surmounted by a <i>bust <\/i>of the scientist by Giovan Battista Comolli. Flanking the bust are two winged geniuses, one of whom is in the act of crowning Volta. In the panel above a relief stands out, depicting <i>The presentation of the battery to Napoleon Bonaparte<\/i> in Paris in 1801. The tomb of Alessandro Volta is a National Monument, based on a Decree of Vittorio Emanuele III of February 27, 1925.In 1999, the bicentenary of the discovery of the battery, restorations were carried out and at the entrance to the cemetery there were two artistic vintage street lamps running on methane, in honour of the scientist who was one of the first to discover the gas\u2019s origin, which during the hours of darkness create a particular and suggestive lighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pa47\" style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Contacts<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Info Point Broletto, <\/b>Via Pretorio, Como; Tel. 031.304137;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"mailto:infopointcomo@comune.como.it\">infopointcomo@comune.como.it<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Info Point San Giovanni Railway Station<\/b> Piazzale San Gottardo 1, Como; Mobile<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>342.0076403; <a href=\"mailto:info.stazionefs@comune.como.it\"><span class=\"s3\">info.stazionefs@comune.como.it<\/span><\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s4\">To find out more: Tourist site of the Municipality of Como <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/scoprire\/monumenti\/monumenti-fino-900\/tomba-di-volta\/index.html\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/scoprire\/monumenti\/monumenti-fino-900\/tomba-di-volta\/index.html<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lombardiabeniculturali.it\/architetture\/schede\/CO180-00117\/?view=ricerca&amp;offset=93\"><span class=\"s3\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a>Site dedicated to Alessandro Volta <a href=\"http:\/\/alessandrovolta.it\/luoghi-voltiani\/como\/tomba-di-camnago\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/alessandrovolta.it\/luoghi-voltiani\/como\/tomba-di-camnago\/<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Site dedicated to creative walks &#8220;In the footsteps of Volta&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/passeggiatecreative.it\/index.php\/project\/sulle_orme_di_volta\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/passeggiatecreative.it\/index.php\/project\/sulle_orme_di_volta\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"nav fusion-mobile-tab-nav\"><ul class=\"nav-tabs\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\"><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-0f6cbb7510db9f93881\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"mobile-fusion-tab-0f6cbb7510db9f93881\" href=\"#tab-0f6cbb7510db9f93881\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">Church of S. Cecilia in Camnago Volta<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tab-pane fade fusion-clearfix\" role=\"tabpanel\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-labelledby=\"fusion-tab-0f6cbb7510db9f93881\" id=\"tab-0f6cbb7510db9f93881\"><div class=\"awb-tab-pane-inner\">\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"longdesc-return-8023\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13910 size-fusion-400\" tabindex=\"-1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/santa-cecilia-camnago-volta.jpg?resize=400%2C212&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Church of S. Cecilia in Camnago Volta\" width=\"400\" height=\"212\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.camminacitta.it?longdesc=8023&amp;referrer=7846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/santa-cecilia-camnago-volta.jpg?resize=200%2C106&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/santa-cecilia-camnago-volta.jpg?resize=300%2C159&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/santa-cecilia-camnago-volta.jpg?resize=400%2C212&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/santa-cecilia-camnago-volta.jpg?resize=600%2C317&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/santa-cecilia-camnago-volta.jpg?resize=768%2C406&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/santa-cecilia-camnago-volta.jpg?resize=800%2C423&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/santa-cecilia-camnago-volta.jpg?resize=1024%2C542&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/santa-cecilia-camnago-volta.jpg?resize=1200%2C635&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/santa-cecilia-camnago-volta.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"line-height: 1.6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Church of S. Cecilia in Camnago Volta<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Information<br \/>\n<\/span><strong>Location<\/strong>: the church of S. Cecilia is located in Piazza Martignoni 1, Camnago Volta-Como<br \/>\n<strong>Paving<\/strong>: Piazza Martignoni is paved in porphyry cubes, with a section of gravel parking (on the right entering from Via Franchi)<br \/>\n<strong>Architectural barriers<\/strong>: a few meters before the entrance to the church there are two concrete &#8220;panettone&#8221; pillars that are used to prevent vehicular access to the part closest to the sacred building. The main portal is preceded by a large, very low stone step; to access the inside of the church there is another higher step also in stone and then a low threshold<br \/>\n<strong>Access<\/strong>: access from Piazza Martignoni 1<br \/>\n<strong>Services<\/strong>: parking in Piazza Martignoni and in Piazzale don Serafino Pozzetti; city bus stop in via Vincenzo Franchi; ATM and shop in via della Pila<br \/>\n<strong>Leisure and Catering<\/strong>: two restaurants in the various hamlets of Camnago<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Description<br \/>\n<\/span>(Silvia Fasana)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In the acts of the pastoral visit made by Bishop Ninguarda at the end of the sixteenth century, the church of S. Cecilia was in the territory of the parish of San Donnino, but since it was far from it, it was entrusted to the care of the friars of the third order of San Francesco, resident in S. Donato. On 7 March 1654 Bishop Lazzaro Carafino erected it as a parish church. The church is the result of a series of successive alterations that have changed its appearance. Inside, the marble high altar is surmounted by an altarpiece depicting the patron saint <i>Santa Cecilia with San Carlo Borromeo<\/i>, already mentioned in 1631 in the Acts of the pastoral visit of Bishop Carafino. A curiosity: probably during the eighteenth century, the image of Borromeo was replaced with that of the more handsome St. Valerian, Roman soldier and husband of Cecilia; the original figure emerged during the restorations of 1992 and was restored. In the right side chapel (looking at the altar) is an oil painting on canvas of the <i>Crucifixion<\/i>, probably the work of an anonymous artist of the sixteenth century; the left chapel is dedicated to the Madonna del Rosario and houses a recent wooden statue (1952). Also worth mentioning are the confessional, the pulpit and the baroque wooden stalls of fine workmanship; the tabernacle, the lectern, the lamp holder and the bronze Via Crucis by Elio Ponti (as well as the back panel that crowns the statue of St. Joseph in the adjacent old Oratory), a large Crucifix also in bronze by Giovanni Tavani and the stained glass window on the fa\u00e7ade by the local painter Franco Russolillo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pa47\" style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Contacts<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Parish of S. Cecilia<\/b> Piazza Martignoni 1, Camnago Volta-Como;<br \/>\n<b>Info Point Broletto, <\/b>Via Pretorio, Como; Tel. 031.304137;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"mailto:infopointcomo@comune.como.it\">infopointcomo@comune.como.it<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Info Point San Giovanni Railway Station<\/b> Piazzale San Gottardo 1, Como; Mobile<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>342.0076403; <a href=\"mailto:info.stazionefs@comune.como.it\"><span class=\"s3\">info.stazionefs@comune.como.it<\/span><\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"nav fusion-mobile-tab-nav\"><ul class=\"nav-tabs\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\"><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-d3ff270af801b9792cb\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"mobile-fusion-tab-d3ff270af801b9792cb\" href=\"#tab-d3ff270af801b9792cb\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">Volta Walk<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tab-pane fade fusion-clearfix\" role=\"tabpanel\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-labelledby=\"fusion-tab-d3ff270af801b9792cb\" id=\"tab-d3ff270af801b9792cb\"><div class=\"awb-tab-pane-inner\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/PASSEGGIATA-VOLTIANArid.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"longdesc-return-8018\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8018\" tabindex=\"-1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/PASSEGGIATA-VOLTIANArid.jpg?resize=400%2C385&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Camnago Volta, Volta Walk\" width=\"400\" height=\"385\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.camminacitta.it?longdesc=8018&amp;referrer=7846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/PASSEGGIATA-VOLTIANArid.jpg?resize=300%2C288&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/PASSEGGIATA-VOLTIANArid.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<b style=\"line-height: 1.6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"line-height: 1.6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">&#8220;Volta Walk&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Description<br \/>\n<\/span>(Franca Ronchetti Bralla)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">From Piazzale Don Serafino Pozzetti begins the so-called &#8220;Volta Walk&#8221;, a pedestrian and bicycle path with a slight and constant slope up to the hamlet of Solzago (a fraction of the municipality of Tavernerio) that retraces a stretch of the old Como-Erba-Lecco tram line, whose last run took place on May 11, 1956. This stretch of almost 2.8 kilometers, specially built in 1911 by flattening the ground to create a fast connection between Camnago Volta and Solzago, was abandoned to itself, so much so that the bridge made to cross the valley of the Bottini waterfall, located exactly on the border between the Municipalities of Como and Tavernerio, collapsed. So, the route was interrupted. Only in 1999 \u2013 forty-three years after the closure of the tram \u2013 thanks to a program agreement signed by the Municipality of Como, that of Tavernerio and the Association La Citt\u00e0 Possibile Como, a new pedestrian bridge was built, in the same place as the original one, and was inaugurated on June 9, 2002. In addition, thanks to redevelopment and cleaning works, the stretch from Solzago to Camnago Volta was restored, thus creating the pleasant Volta Walk, immersed in the greenery of the Cosia valley, in the footsteps of the old tram and of the famous Como scientist Alessandro Volta, whose tomb stands nearby. Walking along the &#8220;Volta Walk&#8221;, the attentive eye notices details, sometimes partially hidden by vegetation, that remind us why that wide path was born: the stone walls on the sides, the vintage metal parapets, the arches of some bridges &#8230; There are no tracks anymore, but otherwise everything is more or less as it used to be. One still seems to hear the voice of the Honourable Carcano, when on May 8, 1912, speaking on the inaugural tram ride, said: <i>&#8220;It is the most beautiful line in Italy, both because it links Como with the fertile Brianza countryside, and because it borders on the tomb of the great scientist Alessandro Volta&#8230;&#8221;.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"pa47\" style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Contacts<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Parish of S. Cecilia<\/b> Piazza Martignoni 1, Camnago Volta-Como;<br \/>\n<b>Info Point Broletto, <\/b>Via Pretorio, Como; Tel. 031.304137;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"mailto:infopointcomo@comune.como.it\">infopointcomo@comune.como.it<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Info Point San Giovanni Railway Station<\/b> Piazzale San Gottardo 1, Como; Mobile<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>342.0076403; <a href=\"mailto:info.stazionefs@comune.como.it\"><span class=\"s3\">info.stazionefs@comune.como.it<\/span><\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">To find out more: Site dedicated to creative walks &#8220;In the footsteps of Volta&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/passeggiatecreative.it\/index.php\/project\/sulle_orme_di_volta\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/passeggiatecreative.it\/index.php\/project\/sulle_orme_di_volta\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><br \/>\n<p><a title=\"Como Path 6 - Stage 3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.camminacitta.it\/en\/como-percorso-6\/como-percorso-6-tappa-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Stage 3 \u2013 Over the hill in Brunate<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-tabs fusion-tabs-3 classic awb-tabs-transition awb-tabs-transition-fade vertical-tabs icon-position-left mobile-mode-accordion\" style=\"--awb-title-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-title-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-title-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-title-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-alignment:start;--awb-inactive-color:#f9f9fb;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-border-color:#e2e2e2;--awb-active-border-color:#ff9d00;--awb-active-border-size:3px;--awb-transition-speed:300ms;--awb-border-size:1px;\"><div class=\"nav\"><ul class=\"nav-tabs\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\"><li class=\"active\" role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-2e56fe8d7c59022d144\" aria-selected=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\" id=\"fusion-tab-2e56fe8d7c59022d144\" href=\"#tab-2e56fe8d7c59022d144\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">The house where Alessandro Volta was nursed<\/h4><\/a><\/li><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-b3782dc2324f53cb9bd\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"fusion-tab-b3782dc2324f53cb9bd\" href=\"#tab-b3782dc2324f53cb9bd\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">S. Andrea in Brunate<\/h4><\/a><\/li><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-67458294a5530307238\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"fusion-tab-67458294a5530307238\" href=\"#tab-67458294a5530307238\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">Volta Lighthouse<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tab-content\"><div class=\"nav fusion-mobile-tab-nav\"><ul class=\"nav-tabs\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\"><li class=\"active\" role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-2e56fe8d7c59022d144\" aria-selected=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\" id=\"mobile-fusion-tab-2e56fe8d7c59022d144\" href=\"#tab-2e56fe8d7c59022d144\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">The house where Alessandro Volta was nursed<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tab-pane fade fusion-clearfix in active\" role=\"tabpanel\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-labelledby=\"fusion-tab-2e56fe8d7c59022d144\" id=\"tab-2e56fe8d7c59022d144\"><div class=\"awb-tab-pane-inner\">\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"longdesc-return-8025\" class=\"wp-image-13896 size-fusion-400\" tabindex=\"-1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/casa-balia-alessandro-volta.jpg?resize=400%2C868&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The house where Alessandro Volta was nursed\" width=\"400\" height=\"868\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.camminacitta.it?longdesc=8025&amp;referrer=7846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/casa-balia-alessandro-volta.jpg?resize=138%2C300&amp;ssl=1 138w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/casa-balia-alessandro-volta.jpg?resize=200%2C434&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/casa-balia-alessandro-volta.jpg?resize=400%2C868&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/casa-balia-alessandro-volta.jpg?resize=472%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 472w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/casa-balia-alessandro-volta.jpg?w=590&amp;ssl=1 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"line-height: 1.6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">The house where Alessandro Volta was nursed<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Information<br \/>\n<\/span><strong>Location<\/strong>: two houses have been indicated as the home of the Monti-Pedraglio family, where little Alessandro would have been sent to be nursed: one in Via Pietro e Maurizio Monti 9 and the other in Via Volta 5<br \/>\n<strong>Paving<\/strong>: Via Pietro e Maurizio Monti is paved with porphyry cubes; Via Volta is paved with porphyry cubes<br \/>\n<strong>Services<\/strong>: the Como \u2013 Brunate funicular station is not far away. The parking spaces available are few and almost all for residents. ATM and Pharmacy in via Pietro e Maurizio Monti. In Via Monti there is a grocery and fruit-vegetable shop<br \/>\n<strong>Leisure and Catering<\/strong>: Funicular; bars, trattorias and restaurants in the area<br \/>\n<strong>Other information:<\/strong> both buildings are private homes, not open to visitors<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Description<br \/>\n<\/span>(Silvia Fasana)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Alessandro Volta spent the first years of his life in Brunate, cared for by Elisabetta Pedraglio, because in those days it was customary for noblewomen not to breastfeed their children personally, but to appoint a wet nurse. The Brunate historian Maurizio Monti in his <i>History of Como<\/i> (1832) claims to have taken information about her from an &#8220;<i>old man<\/i>&#8221; of the town, who told him that the woman <i>&#8220;was not quite mad, but reputed so because she loved very much to lead a solitary life; on the other hand, she was a very judicious woman&#8221;.<\/i> Elisabetta&#8217;s husband, Lodovico Monti, would have been a barometer-maker, a profession that was quite common at that time among the inhabitants of the town. According to some biographers, Alessandro Volta&#8217;s early childhood was characterized by such a late linguistic development that it was feared that he was to remain mute; but, albeit slowly, he would recover his expressive ability around the age of seven. However, there are no documents of the time that establish precisely where the Monti-Pedraglio family house was. A postcard from the early twentieth century of the administration of the Funicular and some photos from the same period indicate a building located at number 9 of Via Pietro e Maurizio Monti, while a plaque affixed in 1949 to a building in Via Volta 5 (see photo), still recalls: &#8220;In this house \/ Alessandro Volta \/ spent the first years of his life \/ 1745-1827 \/ The Pro Brunate on the 150th anniversary of the battery&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Contacts<br \/>\n<span class=\"s1\"><b>Brunate Municipal Library<\/b> via Funicular 16, Brunate; Tel 031.221345;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:biblioteca@comune.brunate.co.it\"><span class=\"s2\">biblioteca@comune.brunate.co.it<\/span><\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comune.brunate.co.it\/c013032\/zf\/index.php\/servizi-aggiuntivi\/index\/index\/idtesto\/75\"><span class=\"s2\">For timetables, see the website of the Municipality of Brunate http:\/\/www.comune.brunate.co.it\/c013032\/zf\/index.php\/servizi-aggiuntivi\/index\/index\/idtesto\/75<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">To find out more: Site dedicated to creative walks &#8220;In the footsteps of Volta&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/passeggiatecreative.it\/index.php\/project\/sulle_orme_di_volta\/\"><span class=\"s2\">http:\/\/passeggiatecreative.it\/index.php\/project\/sulle_orme_di_volta\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"nav fusion-mobile-tab-nav\"><ul class=\"nav-tabs\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\"><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-b3782dc2324f53cb9bd\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"mobile-fusion-tab-b3782dc2324f53cb9bd\" href=\"#tab-b3782dc2324f53cb9bd\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">S. Andrea in Brunate<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tab-pane fade fusion-clearfix\" role=\"tabpanel\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-labelledby=\"fusion-tab-b3782dc2324f53cb9bd\" id=\"tab-b3782dc2324f53cb9bd\"><div class=\"awb-tab-pane-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/739_co250-00739d01.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"longdesc-return-7951\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7951\" tabindex=\"-1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/739_co250-00739d01.jpg?resize=400%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"S. Andrea in Brunate\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.camminacitta.it?longdesc=7951&amp;referrer=7846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/739_co250-00739d01.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/739_co250-00739d01.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"line-height: 1.6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">S. Andrea in Brunate<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Information<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> the church of S. Andrea, parish church of Brunate, is located in the town centre, on a large square with a splendid view, not far from the funicular station<br \/>\n<strong>Paving:<\/strong> the churchyard is mainly made of stone cubes; the steps at the side entrance are made of stone; the floor inside the vestibule is made of mosaic stone.<br \/>\n<strong>Architectural barriers:<\/strong> Five steps lead to the side entrance; the vestibule has a right side opening<br \/>\n<strong>Access:<\/strong> the church is generally accessed from the side portal<br \/>\n<strong>Services:<\/strong> not far from the church there is the Como \u2013 Brunate funicular station. The parking spaces available are few and almost all for residents. ATM and Pharmacy in Via Pietro e Maurizio Monti<br \/>\n<strong>Leisure and Catering:<\/strong> the Funicular itself is an opportunity for recreation. Bars, trattorias and restaurants in the area<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Description<br \/>\n<\/span>(Alberto Rovi e Ambra Garancini)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The church of S. Andrea, originally the home of an Augustinian female monastery renowned for the personalities of the blessed Maddalena Albrici (1390-1465) and the legendary Santa Guglielma, has a grandiose concrete fa\u00e7ade modelled in eclectic lines, designed by Engineer<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Stampa as part of the expansion (1927-1932) which redefined the religious space by enlarging it into a pseudo-octagonal shape, and concluding it with an airy dome, enclosed in an octagonal lantern. In the dome there is a fresco of the <i>Glory of Saints<\/i> by Raffaele Albertella (1934), who also painted the <i>Symbols of the Evangelists<\/i> in the pendentives that support the dome itself and, in the elongated sails that enclose them, the <i>Nativity<\/i>, the<i> Last Supper<\/i>, the <i>Crucifixion<\/i> and the <i>Resurrection<\/i>. Devotional subjects are placed on the four major pillars: <i>St. Joseph<\/i>, <i>The Guardian Angel<\/i>, <i>St. Aloysius Gonzaga<\/i>, <i>St. Agnes<\/i>. In addition to the classical marble angels-stoups (1937-1938). On the right side is the tombstone of Maddalena Albrici (early sixteenth century), similar in quality to Rodari&#8217;s works in Como\u2019s Cathedral, already dispersed, but recovered by the architect Piero Clerici. The right side chapel (1936) is dedicated to the Blessed, which contrasts with the side entrance to the church, framed by a beautiful Baroque stone portal, formerly the main portal of the ancient church that was renovated in 1676. The presbytery and the two side chapels that precede it &#8211; carrying traces of seventeenth-century paintings, minimal in the one on the right dedicated to the Madonna of the Rosary, still substantial in the one in front (<i>Stories of St. Vincent Ferrer<\/i>) &#8211; remain rededicated to the Sacred Heart (canvas by C. C. Tagliabue, 1932, within a multilinear marble frame, early eighteenth century), with a statue of <i>the dead Christ<\/i>\u00a0under the canteen. The vault above the intermediate space, which connects the presbytery and nave, bears a <i>Glory of St. Maurice<\/i> between lunettes with scenes of monastic virtue (Felice Gennari da Palestrina, 1890). But an even older fragment, from the late 1400s, depicts, according to popular devotion, <i>Santa Guglielma<\/i>, identified by a local tradition with the legendary figure of an English princess and queen of Hungary, an exile and miracle worker in Brunate, who was never recognised as a saint by the Church. Another interpretation identifies the Saint with Guglielma called &#8220;la Boema&#8221;, or &#8220;di Milano&#8221; (thirteenth century) historically active in Chiaravalle Milanese as a religious reformer, who died in a sanctimonious spirit and burned post-mortem, so that the disappearance of her remains would prevent the spread of the heresy professed by her followers. At the feet a nun and a devotee are kneeling, mostly interpreted as Blessed Maddalena Albrici and the commissioner of the painting. Those who identify Guglielma di Brunate with the &#8220;Bohemian&#8221;, instead, interpret the two characters as Maifreda da Pirovano and Andrea Saramita, the two most important followers of the &#8220;Bohemian&#8221;. Be that as it may, and given that at the moment no historical document proves the identification with Guglielma the Bohemian, the effigy of the legendary and mysterious Santa Guglielma was for centuries \u2013 and until the second post-war period \u2013 the destination of a &#8220;pilgrimage of milk&#8221;: in fact, mothers and pregnant women came to it, especially from nearby Brianza, to ask for protection during and after childbirth and in particular for the gift of milk for their children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The frescoes in the presbytery are by Gian Paolo Recchi and his nephews Raffaele and Carlo (1679-1682), restored by Leonardo Camporini (1998\/1999): they represent a plastic <i>Annunciation<\/i> flanking the ancient apse window, recovered with the afore mentioned restoration (architect Darko Pandakov\u00ecc), the <i>Glory of Saints Andrew and Maurice<\/i> on the vault, in the lunettes (another recovery) the <i>Martyrdom of St. Maurice<\/i>, on the right, and <i>Sant \u2018Andrea<\/i>, opposite, almost lost. In the four pendentives you can recognize the medals with <i>St. Michael the Archangel<\/i>, <i>St. Bartholomew<\/i>, <i>Blessed Maddalena Albrici<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">On the left side of the church (looking at the fa\u00e7ade) two marble plaques recall: &#8220;Here \/ in Brunate \/ lived \/ at the nurse and in childhood \/ Alessandro Volta \/ with Elisabetta Pedraglio \/ whose husband Lodovico Monti \/ maker of barometers \/ infused him with his first love \/ of science \/ which gave him \/ the battery&#8221; (the text of which would have been attributed to Maurizio Monti) and &#8220;Brunate \/ homeland of the Monti children\/ Maurizio historian Pietro philologist \/ to Alessandro Volta \/ who in these balsamic auras \/<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>opened the mind \/ discoverer of the battery \/ in the first centenary \/ D.D.&#8221; (S.F.)<\/p>\n<p>Contacts<br \/>\n<b>Parish of Brunate<\/b> Piazza della Chiesa 2, Brunate; Tel. 031.220216<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">To find out more: Site dedicated to creative walks &#8220;In the footsteps of Volta&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/passeggiatecreative.it\/index.php\/project\/sulle_orme_di_volta\/\"><span class=\"s1\">http:\/\/passeggiatecreative.it\/index.php\/project\/sulle_orme_di_volta\/ <\/span><\/a><br \/>\nSite of the Municipality of Brunate<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comune.brunate.co.it\">http:\/\/www.comune.brunate.co.it<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The church of S. Andrea on the site: <span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lombardiabeniculturali.it\/architetture\/schede\/CO250-00738\/\">https:\/\/www.lombardiabeniculturali.it\/architetture\/schede\/CO250-00738\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"nav fusion-mobile-tab-nav\"><ul class=\"nav-tabs\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\"><li  role=\"presentation\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-67458294a5530307238\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"mobile-fusion-tab-67458294a5530307238\" href=\"#tab-67458294a5530307238\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\">Volta Lighthouse<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tab-pane fade fusion-clearfix\" role=\"tabpanel\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-labelledby=\"fusion-tab-67458294a5530307238\" id=\"tab-67458294a5530307238\"><div class=\"awb-tab-pane-inner\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ANTICHI_PELLEGRINI_A_COMOrid.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7952 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ANTICHI_PELLEGRINI_A_COMOrid.jpg?resize=211%2C321&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Volta Lighthouse\" width=\"211\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ANTICHI_PELLEGRINI_A_COMOrid.jpg?resize=197%2C300&amp;ssl=1 197w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.camminacitta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ANTICHI_PELLEGRINI_A_COMOrid.jpg?w=211&amp;ssl=1 211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"line-height: 1.6; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Volta Lighthouse<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Information<br \/>\n<\/span><strong>Location<\/strong>: the lighthouse stands on Mount Tre Croci, in a panoramic position, overlooking the lake<br \/>\n<strong>Paving<\/strong>: the avenue and the steps of the access staircase are made of porphyry cubes; the square on which the lighthouse stands is paved in stone<br \/>\n<strong>Architectural barriers<\/strong>: to access the square on which the lighthouse stands there is a staircase of 69 steps. Inside the lighthouse 143 steps lead to the top to admire the view<br \/>\n<strong>Services:<\/strong> paid parking; Brunate \u2013 CAO line bus terminus<br \/>\n<strong>Leisure and catering<\/strong>: restaurants and bed and breakfasts in the surrounding area<br \/>\n<strong>Other information:<\/strong> for opening hours and costs see the website of the Municipality of Brunate http:\/\/www.comune.brunate.co.it\/c013032\/zf\/index.php\/servizi-aggiuntivi\/index\/index\/idservizio\/20009\/idtesto\/43<br \/>\n<strong>WARNING: access to the interior of the Lighthouse is closed at present (2026), waiting for restoration works.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Description<br \/>\n<\/span>(Lorenzo Marazzi)<\/p>\n<p>The lighthouse, 29 meters high, was built in 1927, to commemorate the centenary of the death of the scientist Alessandro Volta. The initiative was taken by the Institute for National and International Competitions among the Post-Telegraph workers, but then, for financial reasons, it passed to the Institute of Postal Receivers. The project was by the engineer Gabriele Giussani, who chose Monte Tre Croci, in San Maurizio, above Brunate, as the most suitable place. It was chosen because it is overlooking Como and can be seen not only from the first two basins of the lake, but also from the Po Valley and Brianza. The choice, however, was not appreciated by the inhabitants of Moltrasio, on the western shore of the lake, who protested because the alternation of the tricolour light beams with which the lighthouse was equipped disturbed them at night. Once built, the Lighthouse was donated to the city of Como; the Municipality is still its owner. The burden of management was the cause of long discussions and for some time they charged for admission, with the result of a rapid decrease in the number of visitors. For several years the Lighthouse was turned off and the degradation of the building and the surrounding environment increased rapidly. With the rapid progress in the field of communications, the building was reduced to a convenient &#8220;base&#8221; for antennas of various types and in 1974 it was disfigured by a satellite television antenna, fortunately removed shortly after. Between 1961 and 1965 the Como Tourist Board carried out restoration work; in 2015, thanks to the intervention of the Rotary Club of Como, a technical update was carried out with the installation of an LED light system and so the Lighthouse resumed launching its tricolour lights into the night, alternating beams of white, red and green light. At present (2026) the lighthouse is closed to the public and the tower is waiting further restoration works. However, the panorama on the lake from the base of the lighthouse is outstanding and the place is well worth a visit.<\/p>\n<p>Contacts<br \/>\n<strong>Municipality of Brunate<\/strong> via alla Chiesa 2, Brunate; Tel. 031.220301; <a href=\"mailto:info@comune.brunate.co.it\"><span class=\"s1\">info@comune.brunate.co.it<\/span><\/a>; www.comune.brunate.co.it<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">To find out more: Tourist site of the Municipality of Como <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/scoprire\/monumenti\/monumenti-dal-900\/faro_voltiano\/index.html\"><span class=\"s1\">http:\/\/www.visitcomo.eu\/it\/scoprire\/monumenti\/monumenti-dal-900\/faro_voltiano\/index.html<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a>Site dedicated to Alessandro Volta <a href=\"http:\/\/alessandrovolta.it\/luoghi-voltiani\/como\/faro-a-san-maurizio\/\"><span class=\"s1\">http:\/\/alessandrovolta.it\/luoghi-voltiani\/como\/faro-a-san-maurizio\/<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Site dedicated to creative walks &#8220;In the footsteps of Volta&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/passeggiatecreative.it\/index.php\/project\/sulle_orme_di_volta\/\"><span class=\"s1\">http:\/\/passeggiatecreative.it\/index.php\/project\/sulle_orme_di_volta\/<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Site &#8220;Men and lighthouse&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/uominielighthouse.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/01\/il-faro-voltiano-di-san-maurizio-a-brunate\/\"><span class=\"s1\">https:\/\/uominielighthouse.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/01\/il-faro-voltiano-di-san-maurizio-a-brunate\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4\"><p><span style=\"line-height: 1.6;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11995","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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