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Discover Como between Lake, Monuments and Nature
How to get around on Lake Como?
The best way to visit Lake Como is to see "the Lake in the Lake". Drive along the lake, relaxing and enjoying the wonderful view that can be admired directly in the lake, using the boats or the private taxi boat service. Using these means, you can reach every city on the lake. You can buy tickets for individual cities or the cheaper day ticket, which allows you to get on and off the boats and visit different cities. In addition, you can buy the ticket for the car ferry, in order to cross the lake between Bellagio, Menaggio, Cadenabbia and Varenna. For timetables and costs you can browse the following site: Lakes navigation.
Alessandro Volta
The statue of Alessandro Volta
Marble statue inaugurated in 1838, the work of Pompeo Marchesi, one of the most famous sculptors of the time. The massive base is the work of Francesco Durelli and a simple dedication is engraved on it: “A Volta - La Patria”.
Place:Piazza Volta
Opening:Always open
Ticket:Free
Volta Temple
On the occasion of the celebrations for the hundredth anniversary of the death of Alessandro Volta, Francesco Somaini donated this monument to the city in his memory. It collects originals and reconstructions of Volta's scientific instruments together with documents and materials concerning his life.
Place:Viale Marconi Tel: +39 031 574705
Opening: Tuesday to Sunday From 10 to 18 Last admission at 5.30pm
Ticket: Full rate € 5
Reduced rate € 3 (children from 6 to 18 years - Seniors over 70 years - Employees of the Municipality of Como)
Combined ticket (2 museum / cultural institutes) € 8.
Family pass (two adults and two children 6-18 per structure) € 12
Free access: Children under 6 - Disabled with a companion
Gattoni Tower
Alessandro Volta, around 1765, conducted the first scientific experiments in the physical cabinet of Torre Gattoni. Around 1930, Torre Gattoni became the site of the first electrical substation that supplied the current for the lighting of the city, which remained active until 1958. As evidence of this, you can see the electrical panel with the measuring instruments and disconnectors as well as the transformers called to "basculla".
Place:Viale Varese at the corner of Viale Cattaneo  Â
Opening:Variable
Ticket: Free
Tomb of Alessandro Volta
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Small temple in neoclassical style with a circular plan
The mausoleum was erected by the will of Volta's wife and children based on a design by Melchiorre Nosetti and inaugurated on March 5, 1831.
Place:Via Luigi Clerici
Opening:1 April - 30 September: from 8.00 to 17.30
1 October - 31 March: from 8.00 to 17.00
Ticket: Free
Volta Lighthouse
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Built in 1927 on a project by the engineer Gabriele Giussani it is a gift from Como in memory of Alessandro Volta, 100 years after his death.
Location: Via Giacomo Scalini, locality of San Maurizio, municipality of Brunate
Telephone: +39 031 220301 (Municipality of Brunate)
Opening: Open every day except Wednesdays except holidays, from 10.30 to 18.30
Closed in case of rain, bad weather or strong wind
Ticket: 1 euro up to 18 years
2 euro ordinary
1 euro each for groups of 15 people or more
Life Electric
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Life Electric is a monument in honor of Alessandro Volta. It rises in the center of the first basin of Lake Como.
Place:Piero Caldirola breakwater
Opening: Open every day
Ticket: Free
Villages and Villas
Cernobbio
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Villa D'este
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Villa Erba
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Villa Bernasconi
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Il Giardino della Valle
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Bellagio:
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Villa Melzi
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Il Parco di Villa Serbelloni
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Varenna:
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Villa Monastero
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Giardini di Villa Cipressi
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Castello di Vezio
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Tremezzo:
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Villa Carlotta
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Villa Sola Cabiati
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Parco Civico Teresio Olivelli di Villa Meier
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Villa Amila
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Chiesa Parrocchiale di San Lorenzo
Walks ...
Greenway Lake Como
The Greenway of Lake Como is a 10 km walk that touches seven villages on the western side: Colonno, Sala Comacina, Ossuccio, Lenno, Mezzegra, Tremezzo and Griante.
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