Curiosità
Former Ticosa Silk-Printing Works and Santarella Power House
Como’s luxury silk has an awkward backstage: workers, chemicals, heavy industry—and, here, an enormous gap where most of the factory has disappeared.
Perché vale la deviazione
This striking void in central Como was once Ticosa, a major silk-dyeing and printing complex. Most of it has vanished, leaving the Santarella power house and a northern industrial section as fragments of the city behind the luxury label.
Once a bustling silk-dyeing and printing complex, the Former Ticosa Silk-Printing Works now stands as a striking void in central Como, with only the Santarella power house and a northern industrial section remaining. It offers a glimpse into the city's industrial past behind its luxury image.
Che cosa c’è nei paraggi
I luoghi raccontati più vicini, con la distanza in linea d’aria da qui.
300 m
Basilica of Sant'Abbondio
Your map says Via Regina 35. Look up: modern Como has just been interrupted by an 11th-century Romanesque basilica.
450 m
Former Giovanni Bianchi Silk Workshop
Chiffon runs down an absurdly long table while looms clatter nearby. At Via Milano 26, Giovanni Bianchi built a silk business around handwork—before the family moved beyond Como and technology changed the plot.
450 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?
500 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.
500 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.
550 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.
Percorrilo con le storie
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