lagodicomo - monuments and museum of como lake

WAR MEMORIAL
This monument was designed in the Thirties by Giuseppe Terragni, with the cooperation of his brother Attilio. He took inspiration from a sketch by Antonio Sant'Elia. Built in the shape of a tower, it houses a granite monolith, inscribed with the names of 650 soldiers, from Como, who died during the First World War.

TEMPIO VOLTIANO (VOLTA TEMPLE)

This neoclassic temple was built in 1927 thanks to the generosity of the Como industrialist F. Somaini. It was designed by the architect Federico Frigerio to celebrate the first centennial of Alessandro Volta's death. Relics, documents and paintings regarding the great physicist are exhibited here.

CIVIC MUSEUMS

Housed in the Giovio (18th century) and Olginati (19th century) palaces, the Museums of Archaeology and of Art as well as the Giuseppe Garibaldi Museum contain many collections of not only local interest: findings of bone, stone and moulded clay from the pile-dwellings; furniture from the Bronze and early Iron age found at the “Cà Morta” necropolis, located in the outskirts of Como, a Gallic ceremonial cart, with four wheels and decorated with bronze; traces of Babylonian and Egyptian culture; a mummy of a priestess of the 23rd Dynasty (1.200 b.C.); mosaics, Romanesque sculptures; wooden models and designs of the cathedral by F. Juvara; documents concerning local tehnograpy and relics of the Risorgimento and of the Second World War.

MEMORIAL TO THE EUROPEAN RESISTANCE MOVEMENT
Inaugurated in 1.982 by the Italian President - who, at that time, was Sandro Pertini - it is the work of the Milanese sculptor Gianni Colombo. It is essentially composed of large metal plates, inscribed with excerpts of letters, written by those who offered their lives for the ideals of the Resistance. This monument has a strong emotional impact and the symbolic staircases lead the visitor towards those “letters”, along a very evocative route, which is far from being rhetoric.

CAMNAGO VOLTA (Volta's burial place)
Neoclassic temple designed by the architect Melchiorre Nosetti and unveiled on March.5th 1.831. Inside there are Volta's bust, by G.B. Comolli, and some minor statues by L. Argenti.