Church of San Provino

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I luoghi raccontati più vicini, con la distanza in linea d’aria da qui.

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  100 m

  Church of San Giacomo

  The Vittani and Rusconi are fighting, and San Giacomo’s porch takes the blow. Then decay and remodeling do what the feud could not: turn a vast Romanesque church into the compact fragment in front of you.

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  100 m

  Albergo Terminus

  Look from the lake to the Art Nouveau façade: in 1902, Como’s working waterfront was dressing for a new role. The twist? Albergo Terminus was not only a hotel—it also provided bathing facilities for the hotel next door.

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  100 m

  Torre Pantera

  In medieval Como, a clan’s tower could be forcibly shortened. In 1292, that happened to the Rusconi tower beneath Torre Pantera.

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  100 m

  Piazza Cavour and the Exhibition That Rose Twice

  On July 8, 1899, smoke and flames tore through Como’s grand celebration of electricity. The cause was a short circuit—a grim irony followed by a remarkably fast comeback.

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  150 m

  The Underground Valduce Stream at Piazza Matteotti

  The Valduce comes down from Brunate, reaches northeastern Como—and then appears to vanish. It has not: beneath the modern city, the stream is still heading for the lake.

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  150 m

  Broletto

  A bell rings over medieval Como, citizens converge on the square, and civic power plants itself between cathedral and bishop’s palace. Then factional conflict brings fire—and the expanding cathedral claims part of what survives.