Architektur
Sant'Elia Nursery School
Como’s textile economy is gathering speed, the workers’ district is growing, and many mothers are heading to work. One practical question follows them out the door: who looks after the children?
Warum der Umweg sich lohnt
Giuseppe Terragni designed this light-filled 1930s nursery for Como’s rapidly growing workers’ district. Its glass walls, garden and carefully arranged rooms reveal the childcare infrastructure behind the city’s textile economy.
Sant'Elia Nursery School is a hidden gem of modernist architecture in Como, designed by Giuseppe Terragni in the 1930s. It features innovative use of glass and space, reflecting the city's industrial growth and childcare needs.
Die Menschen hinter dieser Adresse
Belegte Verbindungen, keine Promi-Anekdoten.
Giuseppe Terragni
Terragni designed the nursery between 1935 and 1937 as a modern school for children in the surrounding workers’ quarter.
Was sonst in der Nähe liegt
Die nächstgelegenen Orte, über die wir geschrieben haben, mit Luftlinie von hier.
350 m
Via Anzani Workers’ Housing
On paper, this was a whole new district. Then the budget cuts arrived, and an entire neighbourhood shrank to two apartment blocks.
450 m
Former Ticosa Silk-Printing Works and Santarella Power House
Como’s luxury silk has an awkward backstage: workers, chemicals, heavy industry—and, here, an enormous gap where most of the factory has disappeared.
550 m
Castello Baradello
Turn toward Como, then back to the fortification. City, hill, stonework: Castello Baradello tells its story through geography before anyone says a word.
550 m
Casa Cattaneo-Alchieri
Look up: one apartment block is doing its best impression of a pile of private villas. Pietro Lingeri built the illusion with projecting terraces—then returned in the 1950s and disrupted his own skyline.
750 m
Como Silk Museum
On Via Castelnuovo, the hunt comes down to one small detail: number 9. Find it, and silk gets the whole museum to itself.
750 m
Casa Pedraglio
Mid-construction, Casa Pedraglio lost two structural bays. The apartment house carried on anyway, leaving Terragni’s composition with architecture’s equivalent of deleted paragraphs still showing.
Mit den Geschichten ablaufen
Diese Adresse ist eine Station von vielen. Unsere Routen und Quests verbinden sie zu einem Weg, der vor Ort aufgeht.