Como Civic Art Gallery

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.