Museo
Como Silk Museum
On Via Castelnuovo, the hunt comes down to one small detail: number 9. Find it, and silk gets the whole museum to itself.
Perché vale la deviazione
A museum in Como devoted to silk, located in the San Martino district.
The Como Silk Museum offers a fascinating insight into the rich history of silk production in the region. It is a hidden gem located in the San Martino district, showcasing the traditional techniques and machinery used in silk manufacturing.
Che cosa c’è nei paraggi
I luoghi raccontati più vicini, con la distanza in linea d’aria da qui.
50 m
Paolo Carcano Silk Institute
Lake Como gets the postcards; this campus tells the story behind the silk. Here, fashion meant chemistry, weaving and homework long before it meant a polished shop window.
200 m
Where the Cosia Disappears at Via Piave
Follow the Cosia beside the street and it pulls a neat vanishing act: one moment it is in the open, the next it is running beneath central Como toward the lake.
400 m
Via Anzani Workers’ Housing
On paper, this was a whole new district. Then the budget cuts arrived, and an entire neighbourhood shrank to two apartment blocks.
450 m
Casa Cattaneo-Alchieri
Look up: one apartment block is doing its best impression of a pile of private villas. Pietro Lingeri built the illusion with projecting terraces—then returned in the 1950s and disrupted his own skyline.
600 m
Casa Pedraglio
Mid-construction, Casa Pedraglio lost two structural bays. The apartment house carried on anyway, leaving Terragni’s composition with architecture’s equivalent of deleted paragraphs still showing.
750 m
Sant'Elia Nursery School
Como’s textile economy is gathering speed, the workers’ district is growing, and many mothers are heading to work. One practical question follows them out the door: who looks after the children?
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.