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Where the Cosia Disappears at Via Piave

Follow the Cosia beside the street and it pulls a neat vanishing act: one moment it is in the open, the next it is running beneath central Como toward the lake.

Adresse: Via Piave near Via Castelnuovo, Como
Region: Como, Italien

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Warum der Umweg sich lohnt

Here, the Cosia torrent runs visibly beside Via Castelnuovo and Via Piave, then abruptly disappears beneath central Como on its way to the lake. Its covering concealed a flood-prone watercourse that repeatedly damaged the city around it.

An unusual spot where the Cosia torrent vanishes underground, highlighting the city's efforts to manage its flood-prone watercourse. This hidden gem offers a glimpse into Como's unique urban landscape.

Was sonst in der Nähe liegt

Die nächstgelegenen Orte, über die wir geschrieben haben, mit Luftlinie von hier.

150 m
Paolo Carcano Silk Institute
Lake Como gets the postcards; this campus tells the story behind the silk. Here, fashion meant chemistry, weaving and homework long before it meant a polished shop window.
200 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.
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.
550 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.
650 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.
800 m
San Vitale Tower
After Como’s ruinous war with Milan, the city’s southern edge acquired a blunt message in stone: fewer openings, stronger defenses, no decorative fuss. San Vitale was architecture saying, very firmly, “Not again.”