Curiosità
Campari Fountain
Someone looked at a village water source and thought: useful—but could it sell Campari too? The answer is standing in front of you.
Perché vale la deviazione
A 1935 village fountain that doubles as permanent Campari advertising, complete with sculpted brand imagery. Designed by Giuseppe Gronchi, it is one of the rare survivors from a nationwide promotional series.
The Campari Fountain is a unique 1935 village fountain designed by Giuseppe Gronchi, featuring sculpted brand imagery as part of a rare promotional series. It stands as a hidden gem in Brunate, offering a glimpse into historical advertising art.
Le persone legate a questo indirizzo
Legami documentati, non aneddoti da rotocalco.
Giuseppe Gronchi
Gronchi designed the sculptural advertising fountain for Campari in 1935.
Che cosa c’è nei paraggi
I luoghi raccontati più vicini, con la distanza in linea d’aria da qui.
50 m
Bellavista Hotel and Pencho Slaveykov Memorial
The funicular sends a new crowd up the hill, and the Bellavista opens its doors to catch the trade. Then a Bulgarian poet spends his final days here, giving this hotel frontage a second, more poignant life.
100 m
Church of Saint Andrew the Apostle
You arrive in Piazza alla Chiesa expecting one church and one façade. Saint Andrew’s has other ideas: repeated rebuilding and a twentieth-century enlargement left it with two public faces.
100 m
Villa Pirotta Bonacossa
A cotton magnate eyes an exceptionally steep Brunate hillside and decides it needs a miniature Versailles. Villa Pirotta Bonacossa is what happens when industrial wealth, artistic ambition, and gravity all refuse to back down.
100 m
Former Grand Hotel Brunate
The grand hotel is ready for guests: fifty rooms, a proud resort façade—and no funicular yet. Brunate is betting on a tourist boom before the easiest ride up the mountain has even opened.
100 m
Chalet Sonzogno
Turin, 1902: a wooden chalet is reportedly on display. Two years later, it resurfaces as third prize in a newspaper contest—fully furnished.
450 m
Como–Brunate Funicular
In 1894, the mule-track slog up from Como met its match: a railway climbing roughly 500 vertical metres. Brunate would never be quite so secluded again.
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.