Curiosità
Bruno Pessina Workers’ Houses and Factory Chimney
The chimney gives the game away. This stretch of Borgo Vico now blends into the city, but the brick survivor above you belonged to a silk works that employed as many as 160 people in the 1930s.
Perché vale la deviazione
These workers’ houses and factory chimney survive from the Bruno Pessina silk works, built in the early twentieth century. They preserve a fragment of Como’s industrial labor history among the modern buildings of Borgo Vico.
The Bruno Pessina Workers’ Houses and Factory Chimney are historical remnants from the early 20th century silk industry in Como. They offer a glimpse into the city's industrial past amidst modern developments.
Che cosa c’è nei paraggi
I luoghi raccontati più vicini, con la distanza in linea d’aria da qui.
200 m
Casa Giuliani-Frigerio
Drawings and detailed instructions are being sent from military training to Como. Giuseppe Terragni is serving in the Italian army, yet the building in front of you is still taking shape — architecture conducted at a distance.
250 m
Giovio Museum
On Lake Como’s shore, 484 painted faces once stared back at visitors: writers, rulers, statesmen and dignitaries gathered not for a banquet, but for Paolo Giovio’s remarkably early public archive of fame.
300 m
Canottieri Lario Clubhouse
Antonietta Sinigaglia commemorated her champion-rower son Giuseppe not with a statue, but with a clubhouse built on Como’s reclaimed shore—reportedly in just seven months.
350 m
Novocomum
The scaffolding comes down, and Como realizes the conservative building approved on paper has become something radically avant-garde. The city has been architecturally catfished.
400 m
Como War Memorial
Lake Como usually gets the soft-focus treatment: water, mountains, palaces. Then, on Via Giancarlo Puecher, a war memorial interrupts the postcard and changes the mood.
500 m
Former Tintoria Subalpina
Silk out, hotel rooms in. This address once handled dyeing, printing and finishing; now much of it belongs to residences and the Hilton Lake Como—a serious career change.
Percorrilo con le storie
Questo indirizzo è una tappa fra tante. I nostri itinerari e le quest le collegano in una passeggiata che funziona sul posto.