Museum
Como Civic Art Gallery
At number 84, you came looking for Como’s town art gallery and found it inside a 17th-century palazzo. The building gets equal billing with the art.
Why it is worth the detour
Como’s town art gallery, housed inside the 17th-century Palazzo Volpi on Via Diaz.
The Pinacoteca Civica di Palazzo Volpi is Como's town art gallery, located in a historic 17th-century building. It offers a glimpse into the region's artistic heritage and is considered a hidden gem.
What else is close by
The nearest places we have written up, with straight-line distance from here.
100 m
Alessandro Volta’s Birthplace (Palazzo Volta)
A doorway sits bricked shut in Como’s medieval wall—the remains of a private shortcut granted to Alessandro Volta. Beside it is the ancestral house where his life began and ended.
150 m
Church of San Donnino
A newborn is carried in for baptism; eighty-two years later, the same church holds his funeral. Between those two ceremonies, Alessandro Volta reportedly packed San Donnino with Sunday catechism lessons so popular that some young listeners could not find room.
150 m
Porta Torre
In 1127, Milan had won, and Como’s Roman defenses lay demolished. The tower in front of you is Como’s reply—delivered in stone and aimed directly down the road toward its former enemy.
200 m
Gattoni Tower
Clouds gather over Como, but the street is still dry. Then bells ring and a pistol cracks from a medieval tower—not an attack, but an eighteenth-century storm warning powered by electricity in the air.
200 m
Alessandro Volta High School and Science Museum
A marble Alessandro Volta has presided over this institution since 1832, looking less like a former teacher and more like the patron saint of physics homework. The twist? The real Volta never taught in the building in front of you.
200 m
Roman Gate of Como
In 1914, builders broke ground for a Como school and found that someone had beaten them to the site by roughly two thousand years. Beneath their feet was the Roman city’s main southern gate.
Walk it with the stories
This address is one stop among many. Our routes and quests link them into a walk that makes sense on the ground.