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 Volta Temple
The Volta Temple, built in 1927, was designed as a new headquarters to house the originals and reconstructions of scientific instruments there by Alessandro Volta. The museum is in fact completely dedicated to the inventor of the battery and keeps about 234 exhibits. There are original copies and scientific apparatus of Alessandro Volta, one of the memorabilia: letters, documents, medals and portraits of the great physicist.
Among the equipment will report the Electrophorus and capacitors. It was the cotton farmer Francesco Somaini the designer, developer and construction lender, who wanted the buildings that were worthy of the great scientist Como not only for the high scientific value and contents of the documentary, but also for its appearance so monumental to be assigned new luster to the city. For the construction of the temple vault was chosen architect Federico Frigerio, who created the work in neoclassical referring explicitly to the Pantheon.
 Basilica San Fedele
The magnificent Romanesque Basilica of San Fedele in Como, built around 1120 on early medieval foundation, stands the charming Piazza San Fedele was medieval commercial center and home of citizens of the grain market. The church contains fragments of frescoes from the fourteenth century and paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth century.
Walls, Gattoni and Tower Gate Tower
The walls of Como, built for the first time at the initiative of Julius Caesar, were part of a complex defensive structure to cover the entrances to Milan and Po Valley from the Central Alps, which included, among others, Castle Baradello the Comacina island fortifications and castles of Bellinzona.
 Tower Gattoni, former Tower of Porta Nuova, was rebuilt by Frederick Barbarossa, together with the other two towers and was acquired in late 1700 by Giulio Cesare Gattoni canon, keen natural scientist, who opened a physics laboratory and there settled its scientific collections. Alessandro Volta, a friend of Gattoni, there was often to study and perform experiments that precluded the great invention of the century, Pila.
Tower Gate Tower Gate and Victoria, is the oldest (1192) and imposing medieval towers remained. Has a square, height of 40 meters, while in the outer two arches, the north side has a single tube with a great arch surmounted by four rows of double windows.
The Cathedral
 Begun in 1396, the Cathedral of Como is the last of the Gothic cathedrals built in Lombardy. In the three and a half centuries it took on its definitive realization that appealed even if the dominant styles is the original late Gothic-Renaissance.
The dome was designed by Philip Juvara (1687-1736), architect of the King of Sardinia. The windows, nineteenth century, were created and designed by Joseph Pompeo Bertini. Among the many works of art that adorn the interior, there are sixteenth-century tapestries, paintings Gauedenzio Ferrari, Bernardino Luini, Morazzone (XVI-XVII century), as well as frescoes in the sacristy (the first half of the seventeenth century), and sculptures of Rodari.
The Broletto
Attached to the cathedral is the Romanesque-Gothic Broletto dating back to 1215, the center of political and economic life of the city. It was destroyed several times in moments of heightened tension between the factions Como. It was renovated by the nobility of Como and opened as a theater in 1765. He was living hero of many skirmishes between the aristocracy and the people after "free and dances" which were held at that time. Today it houses exhibitions.
How to get there without a car
The
"LeNord" trains depart right in the center of Milano, at the
Cadorna station, the ones you are interested in, the "diretti"
(direct) to Como stop also at the Bovisa-Politecnico station in Milano,
and in the small town of Saronno before reaching Como Lago, a nice town
on Lake Como.
The recommended trains you can use for this trip
depart from Cadorna to Como at 8:00, 9:00 and 10:00 AM. Check the LeNord site for up-to-date scheduling information or if you want to
leave at different times. The LeNord trains take one hour and cost euro 3,60 one way.
There are also Trenitalia trains that leave from the Central Station, or Stazione Porta Garibaldi, these last are the suburban line S11 and take one hour, and cost euro 3,60, while the express trains from Centrale take 33 minutes and cost euro 10,50. Check on the Trenitalia site for up-to-date timetable. While the LeNord trains arrive at the Station Como Lago, right on the shore of Lake Como, the Trenitalia ones stop at Como San Giovanni, higher up on the hills surrounding Como, and it takes 15 minutes walk to get to the lake.
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