Territory

Overview of the city

The entrance to the port with the fountain of Villa Geno.

Como is located on the southern end of the western branch of Lake Como, in a small lock surrounded by shallow morenical hills. At the withdrawal of the würmian glacier, the plains, now occupied by the city center, were progressively intercepted by the sediments brought by the stream Cosia, which leads to Pràa Pasquée.

It borders directly with Switzerland and is about 40 km away from Milan.

Climate

The winter of Comasco is suffering from the mitigating influence of the lake water mass. The minimum temperatures in November, December, January, February and, at times, March can normally fall below zero and are usually accompanied by a high moisture content. The fog of the nearby Brianza and the Po Plain, which is already partly present beyond the hills to the south of the so-called "convalley", or the center of the city, is completely absent. Snow is quite frequent, though it is not continuous according to winters, with average annual snowy values rising from the valley (about 20/30 cm per year) to the suburbs (about 40/50 cm per year). The last significant snowfall dates from 24 and 25 February 2013, 13, 14 and 15 December 2012, 31 January, 1 and 2 February 2012, 17 December 2010, 21-22 December 2009, 2 February and 6-7 January 2009, 26-27-28 January 2006. In February 2012, the snow remained on the ground for longer due to the very low temperatures, with peaks below zero even in the middle for almost a week. The summer is relatively warm, though the peak gradient period is rather short (no later than two consecutive weeks). 35 to 36 °C may be reached at some time. The rainfall is quite high, with an average of 1,500 mm per year and above in the northernmost neighborhoods. The area has a marked tendency towards temporary phenomena. There are some differences in the night values between neighborhoods in the commune, depending on whether or not they are exposed to the breeze at night. In the summer season during the morning, lake locations often experience lower temperatures than the hinterland due to the breeze of the lake, but then standardized during the afternoon due to wind rotation.

The Como conquered by the Romans in 1966 B.C. is called by Tito Livio Comum oppidum. Gaius Julius Caesar will refuse the city in 59 B.C. by baptizing it Novum Comum. The Comum (с о м) is the Latin form of the original Comm used by the local population of the Comenses and maintained until now in the Comascus dialect. It comes from the Celtic Root Koimo, which means "Home". In the late 1940, the German - language exemption, Kam, which in turn comes directly from Comm, is also stated.

Antiquity

Plate of stone reminiscent of how Plinio the Old and the Young were born in Como

The classic authors, starting with Plinio the Old Man, whose words were reprinted by Origines, a work by Catone and the Census scattered, attribute the foundation Como to the bloodline of the Orobi. There are many archeological testimonies that have come to light since the 19th century. They show us, in the first millennium BC, the flourishing of a civilization, called the Golasky culture, which places the Proourban Como area, especially from the mid-7th century BC to the fourth century BC Gallic invasions, as the center of a vast, culturally uniform territory, extended from Bergamo to the Ticino. In these centuries, Como, who was not located in its current headquarters, but further south, where today the Prestino fraction is located, developed a civilization that is called Comense or Dead Ca'Ca, by the name of the Comasca necropolis, where Como finds its role as commercial and cultural broker between the village civilization and the Celtic civilizations of the olden (Hallstatt culture).

In Roman times, Como was one of the two terminals of the Novaria-Comum street, a Roman road connecting the municipalities of Novaria (Novara) and Comum (Como) via Shybrid (Castel Sefirst). The via Regina also passed from Como, a Roman road linking the river port of Cremona (modern Cremona) with Clavenna (Chiavenna) passing through Mediolanum (Milan).

Etruscan silver drachma found in Prestino

Como in a painting by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot of 1834

The medieval square of St. fedele

From the 4th century BC, Como's dweller went depopulated and his necropoles ran out of steam. With the arrival of the Gauls, which undermine the existing system, Como loses its importance and enters a period of decline. The problem of the location of the Comum oppidum, the Comascus Center conquered by the Romans in 196BC remains unsolved. It is possible that, although small in size, it would only occupy an area on the hills that gravitate around Prestino on the slopes of Mount Cross.

In 1996 B.C., Gaul Cisalpina was finally conquered by Consul Marco Claudio Marcello, who concluded a foedus aequum to tie the losers in Rome by granting ius Latii. In 1989 B.C., following a terrible invasion of the networks, the old oppidum was rebuilt, at the behest of Pompey Strabone, respecting the previous hillside rent, and reorganized administratively, like the rest of the region, through the Lex Pompeia de Transpadanis.

In 77 BC, 3 000 settlers were set up in the village at the initiative of Gaius Scipione, perhaps soldiers destined to prevent barbaric flow. In 59 B.C. Caesar, in view of the probable trans-Alpine expansion and considering the Communist territory strategically important for the defense of the peninsula, launched the Lex Vatinia with which he was authorized to establish a colony. Caesar then cleared the area surrounding the lake by diverting the streams of Cosia, Valduce and Open River and settled 5 000 settlers there, including 500 Greeks who also obtained Roman citizenship, to whom the etymological origin of places such as Corenno (Corinth), Lenno and Lemna (Lemna) was attributed Nesso (Nasso).

In 49 B.C. Como became a municipium. During the 1st century AD, city growth was helped by donations from Plinio the Old and Plinium the Young, both Comaschi, who erected a library and a spa space, as well as two villas on the lake that no longer exist today. In 354, the future emperor Flavio Claudio Giuliano was exiled to Lario. In Como, two Roman roads, the Bergomum-Comum street, which came from Bergamo, and the Novaria-Comum, which had joined Novaria (Novara) with Como via Shybrium (Castelsepri), were ending.

The Lariana area - thanks to its proximity to Milan, already marked by the Christian presence in the Apostolic era, the presence of ancient urban centers such as the Como itself and Licini Forum and the presence of lively communication routes - was evangelized very soon. It is believed that Saint Fedele di Como, killed near Sorico (CO), is the oldest non - bishop martyr in all of Transpadana Italy; The Diocese of Como, which was officially founded in 386, soon had native bishops, not only from the city but also from the surrounding areas, a sign of a well - established Christianity.

Como was actively affected by the three chapels' three chaplains' scisma (in ancient Greek τ ί.A. κ ρ εάßRock, trîa kephálaia), a division within the church between the centuries VI and VII, caused by a large group of bishops, mostly Western, who interrupted their relations with other bishops and the pope, rejecting their decisions of the Council of Constantinople II of 553. The separation lasted about a century and a half and covered a vast territory, comprising Northern Italy, Dalmatia and Illirico. Many bishops from northern Italy, Gaul and Norico did not accept the imposition of the council wanted by Justinian, partly because already during the Council of Koledonia, in 451, the anti-ochen theologians had been admitted back to their headquarters and the affair had to be closed. Therefore, these bishops no longer considered themselves in communion with the other bishops who had accepted the imperial decision in advance. Among these "rebels" to imperial and conciliar authority were the bishops Ausano and Macedonian, respectively head of the ecclesiastical provinces of Milan and Aquileia. Their dissent was further exacerbated in the days of the successor of Pope Vigil, Pope Pelagius I (556 - 561), who, after attempts at clarification and persuasion, invited Narsete to reduce the schism by force. Narsete however did not want to obey the pope's request. Meanwhile, the Church of Aquileia had become hierarchically independent and his Bishop Pauline I (557 - 569) was appointed patriarch by his suffrageans (568): The autonomous patriarchate) to emphasize its autonomy. The other dioceses dependent on the Metropolitan of Aquileia (the two, the one that had its headquarters in Aquileia longobart) remained skismatic. In particular, the Diocese of Como, whose bishop St Abbondio had played an important diplomatic role during the preparation of the Council of Koledonia, canceled the relationship of dependency on the Archdiocese of Milan and Como became suffragan of Aquileia. The Communist diocese still worships today, with the title of Saint, a bishop, Agrippino (Bishop from 607 to 617), who maintained intransigent positions on skismatic positions in opposition to the Roman see. The Diocese of Como was suffragan of the Patriarchate of Aquileia until 1789.

Middle Ages

During the high Middle Ages, Como was invaded by Goti first and later by Longobards; In 1951 Emperor Ottone I came to Italy and Gualdone, Bishop of Como, was among his supporters. During the communal period, Como was contested between the rival families of the Rusca (or Rusconi) and the Vitani. Following the 10-year war between Como and Milan (1118-1127), Como was besieged on August 27 by the Milanese forces, the walls and homes destroyed, the people missing.

Alliance with Barbarossa

Como was not part of the Lombardy League against the Holy Roman Empire. In fact, it was thanks to the alliance with the Germans that the city could aspire to lost hegemony. With the help of Emperor Federico Barbarossa, in 1158, the municipality rebuilt the city destroyed by the Milanese on August 27, 1127, and rebuilt and expanded the defense walls with its imposing towers of Port Torre, San Vitale and Porta Nuova (or Torre Gattoni). So he restored the Castel Baradello, strengthening it by building the powerful tower and other structures. In 1159, he hosted Barbarossa himself with his wife Beatrice of Burgundy, passing through the Larium.

The coat of arms of Como during the first French Empire

In recent years, Como took his revenge by participating in the destruction of Milan in 1162 and Comacina Island in 1169, the little lakeside stronghold allied with the Milanese in the 10 - year war.

With a diploma dated 23 October 1178, Federico Barbarossa gave the church and community of Como - in reward of their loyalty - the Castel Baradello and the Tower of Olonio in Sorico.

Viscount period

With Azzone Visconti as he finally entered his viscounty orbit. When Gian Galeazzo Visconti died in 1402, Franchino II Rusca tried to establish a personal signory in Como. A period of devastation and slaughter followed until 1416 when Como surrendered to Philip Maria Visconti. Upon his death (1447) Como knew a brief period of independence with his "Republic of St Abbondio", which however lasted only until 1450, when the city submitted to Francesco Sforza, the Duke of Milan.

Modern age

Alessandro Volta's home.

License plate for Cosima Wagner.

In October 1525, Como was occupied by Don Pietro Arias, sent by Antonio de Leyva, with 200 Spaniards, who dismantled the Castel Baradello. In 1694 he was ordained a priest to Como, the Jesuit, Giovanni Girolamo saccheri, father of non - Euclidean surveyors. Since then Como has followed the fate of the Duchy of Milan and the Lombardo-Veneto Kingdom.

In 1768, the physicist, Julius Caesar Gattoni, made the first Italian parafulmine in the town. In 1797, Napoleon arrived, and in Villa Saporiti he announced the Constitution of the Republic of Cisalpina, and on 24 December 1837 the daughter of Franz Liszt, Cosima, the future wife of Richard Wagner was born. On 27 may 1859, following the Battle of St. still, Giuseppe Garibaldi, in command of the Alpine hunters, freed the city from Austrian occupation.

In 1899, Como hosted a Great Voltiana Exhibition to celebrate the 1st centenary of the invention of the stack by Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), his most distinguished citizen.

On the occasion of the first centenary of Alexander Volta's death, the 1927 International Congress of Physicists was organized in Como and officially opened the era of quantum mechanics in the international scientific community. It was the last time the city hosted a worldwide event. Six years later, Albert Einstein arrived in the city to visit the Voltian Museum.

During World War II, Como was spared from the bombings.

In April 1945, the city was the scene of the flight and events connected to the arrest and execution of Benito Mussolini and the epilog of the fascist regime.

In the summer of 1949, a conference was held in the city, attended also by Enrico Fermi (the same firm held on the lake in 1954, at Villa Monastero in Varenna, his last public session).

The 1950s and 1960s were remembered for the work of Mayor Lino Gelpi, who did everything he could to beautify the city, dismantling the state's rail freight corridor by building the lake park and creating the Villa Olmo walk. He also covered the River Cosia with a big road - the so-called "tangential" - to try to clear the center of the traffic jam.

In 1981, to prevent the construction of the prison of the Bassone, the "factory workers", during the so-called "night of fireworks", spread the city of bombs that were defused by the bomb-maker Luigi Carluccio, who lost his life when the last bomb exploded. A plaque recalls his sacrifice at the site of the explosion.

Symbols

civic gonfalone

The flag of Como is a white cross in the red field (araldically speaking, of red on the silver cross). It is a flag common to many towns in the Gangelines of Upper Italy, but its origins are to be found in the ancient blutfahne (para. "flag of blood"), a flag of an identical sewer used by the Roman-Germanic emperors on the battlefields.

Honors

The city of Como is "the second of the 27" cities decorated with Gold Medal as "Welcome to the National Resource" for the city's highly patriotic actions during the resurrection, with special reference to the 1848 insurrection and the Battle of St. still.

	Medal for the Blessed Cities of the National Resource
	"To remember the heroic actions carried out by Comasca citizenship in the five days of 1848. During the first war of independence, Como was briefly under a provisional government until the defeat of Novara (March 23, 1849). On May 27, 1859, she was conquered by the Alpine hunters of Garibaldi and then reunited with the Kingdom of Italy.’

	Gold Medal for the fortunes of school, culture and art
	— 2 June 1965

Man's Square and the "Brocade" under the snow.

The tower of Porta Vittoria, at the entrance to the historic center.

The public park at Villa Olmo.

Evening como.

For the history of the spread of Catholic faith and sacred buildings see also

Religious architectures

• The Basilica of St. Carpophore, Romanesque.
• The Basilica of St. Abbondio (Romanesque architecture among the largest in Italy with frescoes of the 14th century).
• Church of the SS. 11TH century Cosma and Damiano, deconsecrated, inside the complex of St Abbondio
• The Basilica of St Fedelas, Romanesque.
• The Cathedral of Como (built between the 14TH and 18TH centuries, which holds the title of Cathedral).
• St George's Basilica, three centuries old, rebuilt in the Baroque era, holds important Roman frescos
• The Church of St. Augustine, which preserves the canvas of the birth of Mary of Morazzon.
• The Church of St. James, behind the Brocade (11TH century), no longer officiated.
• The shrine of the Holy See. Crucifix
• The Church of St. Eusebio, rebuilt in the 500
• The Church of Jesus, of the Jesuit Society, 50TH CENTURY (reformist, one - sided architecture)
• St Donnino church, of baroque age
• The Church of the SS. Giuliano and Ambrogio, 16th century
• The Church of Saint Cecilia, embedded in the ginnesium Alessandro Volta, with annoying baroque interiors with remarkable masterpieces in the rococo style of Andrea Lanzani and Philip Abbiati.
• Ere of San Donato

Civilian architectures

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  Life Electric by Daniel Libeskind in homage to the comascus scientist Alessandro Volta (2015)
  The Brosette (Old City Hall).
• Villa Olmo.
• The site of the city's conservatory, formerly the Grand Hospital of St. Anna, completed in 1485.
• The Voltian Temple (Alexander Volta museum).
• The Palazzo Novocomum (or "transatlantic") is the work of Italian rationalism (by Giuseppe Terragni).
• The House of the Fascist is the work of Italian rationalism (by Giuseppe terragni).
• The Monument to the Fallen (by Giuseppe Terragni).
• The Asylum of St. Elias, the work of Italian rationalism (by Giuseppe Terragni).
• The classic and scientific High School Alessandro Volta, founded in 1773 in the neoclassical building designed by Simone Cantoni.
• The Life Electric, a monument designed by Daniel Libeskind.

Military architecture

• The Castel Baradello, medieval.
• The Walls of Como, Roman and medieval.

Archeological sites

• Dead Ca's Necropolis
• Prestino, excavations via Isonzo
• Rondinean, rock-ridden rooms
• Recciago, building of the historic settlement
• Roman Therme, Avenue Lecco
• Villa Romana, via Zezio
• Roman city walls, Parini middle school courtyard via C. Cantu and underground former Szekler via Carducci.
• Votive circle near the construction site of the new St Anna Hospital (Montano Lucino, in Three Chambers)

Natural areas

• Bassone-Torbiera Oases in Albate

Demographic evolution

Residents

The city is located in the center of an urban agglomeration which includes neighboring municipalities and forwards to neighboring Switzerland. In the east, the conurbation reaches the herbian district. The combined population of these thirty municipalities is over 215 000. In addition to the urban area of neighboring Lecco (almost attached to the grass), the area would reach the 320 000 inhabitants, creating an area and a macrocity which would be the third of Lombardy for the population, just behind the metropolitan areas of Milan and Brescia.

Ethnicity and foreign minorities

According to statistics (ISTAT, 1 January 2015), the foreign population living in the municipality was 11 484, or 13% of the population. The nationalities most represented by their share of the total resident population were 2015:

Traditions and folklore

St. Abbondio Basilica.

The Basilica of San Fedele.

The Feast of Saint Abbondio

St Abbondio is the patronal feast of Como, which is celebrated on August 31 in the homonymous church. The traditional fair takes place near the basilica and is inspired by initiatives such as tasting typical dishes, sales of craftsmanship and the zootechnical exhibition, with the exhibition of dozens of animals such as cows, bulls and calves from herds in the province. At first, the fair was a simple peasant festival that used to bless cows. this tradition is still maintained today.

The Most Holy Crucifix

It is the veneration of the crucifix, linked to the Good Friday procession and the ring of the miracle. During the Holy Thursday procession of March 25, 1529, tradition demands that the crucifix broke the chains that the Spanish governor had built for fear of an ambush by the French, which was immediately considered as miraculous by those present and subsequently recognized as such by the Church in 1608. The crucifix is displayed to the veneration of the faithful every year from Holy Tuesday until Good Friday in the church dedicated to St. Pietro da Morone (Pope Celestine V) and today is dedicated to Ss. Crucified and kissed by thousands of faithful. The ritual is one of the most entrenched devotion traditions in the Comascus. On Good Friday, the crucifix was then carried in procession by the bishop along the streets of Como, an event which, because of the large number of faithful, usually causes serious problems of road traffic on the city streets. Outside the historic city center, the market for stalls has opened, with about 160 street vendors from all over Italy making the most original products, traditionally a popular event among Comaschi citizens, since Thursday before Easter.

The Sagra of St John the Baptist

The celebration of St John the Baptist saw the revival of the medieval Lariane wars, fought on the lake in 1169, and saw the Comascus Army (ally of Federico Barbarossa) opposed to the stronghold of Comacina Island (an ally of Milan). Every year, on the Saturday evening closest to June 24, the fire on the island takes place in the form of a pyrotechnic show. The shipping fleet, with orchestra and dance on board, sails from Como to the island loading hundreds of passengers. The ferry parade would remind the comascus army and its fleet to arrive.

The Feast of Saint Anthony Abate

Every January 17, the feast of Saint Anthony Abate, in front of the Church of St. Augustine, the blessing of cars and animals takes place. Until a few years ago, the small fair was held in the courtyard with sweet chestnuts (also white chestnuts for milk). One particular note deserves pampara, a kind of stick decorated with candy and small toys for children, now in disuse.

The 12:00 Canonade

Since 1912, at the initiative of Pro Como, every day, at 12.00 p.m., you can feel a fire-fired gun shot in the entire urban area facing the lake, sparking the midday break. The cannon of Austrian origin is situated on the slopes of Brunate in the Carescione area, visible during the climb with the cable car to the country overlooking the town.

The shrine of Our Lady of the Prodigy of Garzola

The shrine has within it a sacred image of the most holy Mary with the child who is venerated under the title of Our Lady of prodigy and whom Pope John XXIII helesses as the patron saint of sailors. The precious Byzantine effigy is linked to a prodigious event which took place on 12 September 1669 in the Adriatic Sea. A noble family, fleeing from Candia, on its way to Venice during a terrible storm, saw the sacred picture float in the midst of the flows, caught it, asked for protection to the sacred image, and avoided the shipwreck, was considered for this protector of the sailors. In 2008, Bishop Diego Coletti placed the golden statue of Our Lady of the Prodigy on the roof of the shrine of Our Lady of Mary once on the cusp of the church of the former seminary: Now "the Madunina de Comm" is watching over the entire city.

Institutions, bodies and associations

There are some well - known associations in Como and its territory:

• A communist archeological society that has been active since 1902 and is involved in the dissemination of the city's historical and archeological memories through the publication of the prestigious magazine.

Hospitals

Como and his province served two main hospital facilities:

• St. Anna Hospital transferred to the new facility in the municipality of St. Freak in the Battle on 3 October 2010.
• Valduce Hospital located in the city.

Not far from the center, the historic private clinic Villa Aprica is located in Mount Olympiad.

Quality of life

According to the ISTAT survey published on 28 August 2008 on urban environmental indicators for the 111 provincial municipalities in 2007, Como was ranked 78th after Vibo Valentia and before Bari.
From a dossier on the quality of life in Italian cities of The Sun 24 hours, published in December 2015, the city is in 15th place.

Education

Schools

Alessandro Volta High School, by Simone Cantoni.

Preschool, first-degree and second-grade, lower and higher education institutions are present in the municipality. The second - highest grade classes include 2 classic high schools, 2 Human Sciences High School, 4 Science School, 5 Language School, 1 Music High School, 1 Artistic High School, 6 Technical Institutes, 3 Professional Institutes, 5 Professional Training Centers (CFP).

University of Studies and High Education

Como has been a university building since 1987, when the first courses of the Diploma for special purposes in management computing launched by the Polytechnic of Milan. Since 1989, he has been the site of regular graduation courses in twin engineering from the Milan Institute of Technology, as well as in science and later on in law, which he has attended from the University of Milan. Since 1998 these courses have been brought to the University of Insubria along with similar courses in Varese. Since the same year, Como has been based (together with Varese) at the prestigious Natta palace, the Rectorate of the University of Insubria. The ETH Zurich of Milan has its own regional center in Como.

As for the arts and music, como is home to both a music conservatory and an academy of fine arts.

• Como's "Giuseppe Verdi" music conservatory is the youngest of four conservatives in Lombardy, having been born in 1982 as a separate section of the "Giuseppe Verdi" music conservatory in Milan. The institute gained autonomy in 1996.
• The Academy of Fine Arts "A. Galli is a private institution, founded in 1989 and recognized by the university ministry.
• The Higher Institute for F - translators and interpreters. Casati, born in 1989 and converted in 2002 into Higher School of Linguistic Mediators F. House of Como authorized by the Ministry of the University to issue three - year university degree courses in language mediation.

Museums

The Voltian Temple

• Archeological Museum "P. Giovio"
• Historic Museum "Giuseppe Garibaldi"
• Pinacotec
• Voltian Temple
• Como Silk Museum
• Museum of Physics at the classical and scientific High School Alessandro Volta
• Villa Olmo (exhibitions and exhibitions)

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Print

• The province, the most popular daily newspaper in the city.
• The Corriere di Como, a newspaper published in the newsstand with Corriere della Sera.
• Como and its surroundings, monthly magazine of history, art, current culture and tourism.
• Magic Lake, a magazine of nature, culture and entrepreneurship in the Larian territory.

Radio

• HiComo Radio
• Comoradio International
• Radio Studio Vivo
• Live Studio Stereo (Web)

Television

• Tv expansion

Theaters

• The social theater of Joseph Cusi, completed by Luigi Canonica in 1813. He Hosted Franz Liszt, Niccolò Paganini, Judge Pasta.
• The 1910 project of the illustrious comascus architect Federico Frigerio (Palace Plinius, Voltiano temple) was the second city hall for more than half a century. Its construction began in 1907 and, immediately, it was understood not only as a theater but as a multi - function center, for which it was designed inside, a restaurant and a hotel.
• It was designed by Pietro Luzzani in 1870. Luisa Tetrazzini sang there and Edoardo Ferravilla and Ermete Zacconi acted there. Transformed later into a cinematographer, it is currently closed.
• Cine - Theater La Lucernet ex Cinema of the young people, now the theater of the Center of Como.

Events

• Como City of Music Festival - summer festival organized by the Social Theater of Como and the commune dedicated to music in the most characteristic and suggestive places in the city. From Villa Olmo to Palazzo Natta, from the Castel Baradello to the cloister of St Abbondio a succession of events rich in emotion and sound for every age. A long party that animates the city in July.
• Parolar - cultural event linked to the book fair, which saw the participation of some of the major names of Italian literature and journalism. It takes place in early September for two weeks.
• The Balcony City is thus named the Christmas festival aimed primarily at children, now turned into a winter tourist attraction thanks to the "Magic Light Festival", with special lighting for all the monuments. It lasts more than a month.
• At the beginning of September, the Palio del Baradei is being held in Como, a historic evocation named after the Castel Baradello. Historical sources tell us that in "the month of June, the year of the Lord 1159, Emperor Federico I of Svevia, after having defeated Milan and the Lega Lombarda with the decisive contribution of the troops of Lodi, Cremona, and Pavia, but above all comasche, grateful, is visiting Como. The Allied city celebrates the occasion and welcomes it: great banquets, luminaries, parades and races are organized in his honor on the lake." The palio was born in 1981 and involves the historic contraband of the city (Borgo of Rebbio, Borgo of St Augustine, Borgo of Roggia Molinara, Contrada della Cortesella, Borgo of Cameroon, Borgo of San Martino, Borgo of Tavernola) and some municipalities in the Larian territory (Brienno and Cernobbio) which are challenging for the conquest of pallium, a handmade silk cloak painted every year by valiant Comaschi artists. It consists of three official invitations to tender: The Cariolan, a historic career ride, the Saracen jousting, where the Knight of each Borgo walks out to his right and tries to hit the simulacre target before his opponent, who also went down to the field, thereby gaining the right to meet his next opponent and the rope shot, which he replaced by 2 005 the race, the race, the competition with the clear.
• The LakeComo festival, which was founded in 2006, offers a musical season of classical and contemporary chamber music, using historically relevant villas and sites in Lake Como and showcasing important international artists. The spring section takes place mainly on the lake and in Brianza, while the autumn section reserves a window on the city of Como and uses the civic globe as its headquarters.
• The festival of Light - a spring cultural festival founded in 2013, which follows the scientific tradition of Como, the birthplace of Alessandro Volta, which, with the invention of the battery, has opened the way for countless applications of electricity. The festival of light recalls some of the most important national and international scientists and scholars in the city, with the presence of two Nobel prizes in the last two editions. The festival is organized by the Alessandro Volta Foundation and promoted and supported by the Association for the City of Light.

Administrative subdivisions

Como subscriptions.

Directions - Quarters (highlighting former autonomous municipalities)

1. Albate - Muggiò - Aquanera - Roof
2. Lora
3. Cameroon - Breccia - Rebbio - Prestino
4. Camnago Volta
5. Como Centro - Como West
6. Como Borghi
7. Como Nord - Como est
8. Mount Olympiad - Ponte Chiasso - Sagnino - Tavernola
9. Civilian - Garzola

Since the Middle Ages, the Comascus has had a considerable textile vocation, particularly between the 11th and 17th centuries, the landfill was dominated (with almost industrial concentrations in the Comaschi suburbs along the Cosia, such as the current Via Pannilani, and in the nearby center of Turin). In the 14th and 15th centuries, comascus textiles specialized in ordinary wool, cans and economic tissues, but in parallel, the Serbian industry began to spread towards the end of the 400s. In the 1960's, the Italian and Comasco laneans experienced a period of severe contraction and crisis, with competition from North European textiles, while the production of crushed silk, and in the 1970's, especially as raw and semi-finished silk produced in the immediate vicinity of the city, grew. In the nineteenth century, especially after national unification, the Comascus textile sector began to show signs of dynamism, with early industrialization and a certain capacity for attracting foreign capital. At the beginning of the 1900s Como was a city with a strong industrial vocation with a wide range of specific subsectors (tissue printing, ties, precious silk, socks, generic fabrics, after World War II also tissue drawing, fashion and dye coloring); This growth was also done by putting into crisis and by fiercely competing with the industrial realities of northern Europe (the British, the Dutch, and the French) that two centuries earlier had replaced Italy in the primacy of the textile industry. The sector, however, experienced a severe crisis, from which it did not fully recover (especially in the number of employees) in the early 1990s, followed by further contractions; however, in the comasco area and the circumneighboring municipalities, a strong presence of textile industries is still being allocated, although specialized products of high-end, luxury and brand products have been falling for 30 years, with greater adaptability and better prospects.

The 2013 edition of the Annual Report on the Comasca Economy of the Studies and Statistics Service of the Chamber of Commerce of Como offers a timely split of the euro area economy.

Looking at the size of active enterprises by sector of activity, the prevalence of the tertiary sector is noted, with 26 516 active units and an increasing share of 60% of the total. Construction (8,638 units, weighing below 20%) and manufacturing (6,672 companies, accounting for 15% of the total) are among the most important.

As for the main markets for the destination of Comaschi products, Germany takes first place, absorbing 13.5% of Como's exports and France second. Countries outside the EU have also increased their importance, from 40.8% in 2008 to 46.9% in 2013. The textile sector is still the main export sector.

In the services item, foreign tourism reached an all-time high of 701 938 arrivals (+0.3%). The average stay is just over two days for Italian tourists and just under three days for foreign tourists. The extra - hotel businesses have confirmed the remarkable dynamism of recent years, growing by twenty - one units thanks to bed & breakfast and corporate leased accommodation. In 2013, 83.5% of the total number of tourists who opted for a hotel were arriving.

Finally, there are three areas of growth and new opportunities in the Comascus: nautics, cultural and creative industries and florovivaism. This sector, which is generally referred to as the ‘green supply chain’, includes not only green housing, but also the maintenance and improvement of the landscape and living conditions in cities through the creation of urban green.

Tourism has always been the preserve of the countries of the center-lake. In the city, the phenomenon has grown recently with a host of feature films and television productions such as Beautiful, Living and Star Wars, and the arrival of internationally renowned personalities (e.g. Anna Oxa, Madonna, Ivana Spain, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Richard Branson, Gianni Versace and many others), the traditional version of the living room It was aristocratic and literary in the past centuries.

In the craft sector, silver processing is widespread and valuable, with the aim of producing objects in traditional style and that of beaten iron applied to public buildings.

Boats in maneuver. The lake cruises are a typical feature of the city.

The funeral for Brunate.

The international hydroplane.

Roads and motorways

The municipality is crossed by the A9 lakes motorway.

Rail

Rail node map

Como is linked to the other towns of Lombardy (including Milan) through the "Regional Railway Service" (R).

There are six railway stations in the city: Como San Giovanni and Albate-Cameroon station, along the Milan-Como-Chiasso railway, the Albate-Trecallo line on the Como-Lecco line, Como Nord Lago station, Como Nord Borghi station, Como Nord Cameroon station and the station of GrARD-Breccia, both located along the Como-Saronno railway. Until 1966, the Como-Varese railway line, which was connected directly to Varese Nord, was also operational.

Tranroads

In the first half of the 20TH CENTURY, the city was also linked to its neighbors by means of an extended network of provincial tramways structured along the following lines:

• Como-Cernobbio-Maslianic
• Como-Appiano Gentile-Mozzate
• Como-Cantú-Asnago
• Como-Erba-Lecco
• Como-Until-Saronno

Funicular

The Como-Brunate Funicular has been active since 1894.

Navigation

Since 1826, the liner has operated with a number of services between the city and the countries of the shore (see Lake Como).

Airports

The city is home to the Como International Hydrology, run by the Aero Club Como, where a flight school for training single European seaplane pilots is located. There is also a school of parachuting.

Urban mobility

The urban public transport network has 9 bus lines operated by ASF Autolinee (formerly SPT Line).

The extra-urban transport network (C) is mainly operated by ASF Autolinee and, to a lesser extent, by Ferrovie Nord Milano Autoservizi and consists of lines linking Como to the municipalities of the province and Varese, Lecco and Bergamo. Some of them have replaced the suppressed Como-Varese railway of the Ferrovie Nord Milano since 1966.

In the past, the city was served from 1906 to 1952 by a tramway network, which was later replaced by a filviary network from 1938 to 1978.

Twinning

• Fulda, Germany, since 1960
• Tōkamachi, Japan, since 1975
• Nablus, Palestine, since 1998
• Netanya, Israel, since 2004

Como has a long tradition of sports, mostly linked to water, as the city overlooking the lake of the same name.

Football

A Como formation in the 1983-1984 season, during a decade of stable militancy in Series A.

Como 1907, founded on 25 may 1907, is the city's leading football club. In its history it played 13 Series A and 34 B Championships; In 1996-1997 he won the Italian Cup C Series and in 2007-2008 the Italian Cup D Series. He plays the home games at Giuseppe Sinigaglia Stadium. It was re-founded twice (in 2005 and 2017), has been in Series D in the 2018-19 season, ending at the top of the league, and has won the right to join the C-Series, a few months after a major change of ownership materialized.

On a women's level, the most important society is Como 2000. This club, founded in 1997, played eight A-Series and seven A2 Series championships.

Amongst the amateur football clubs are those of the largest city districts, including Albate Football and Albatese, Sagnino, Ardisci and Hope (founded in 1906), Ardito (1934), Lario (1909), Citadella (1945), Lora Lipomo (1945) 62) and Libertas, the Orator of St Bartholomew's office, where he kicked the famous and late Gigi Meroni. The 2006 World Champion of Germany Gianluca Zambrotta took first steps in Alebio, another neighborhood formation.

Rowing

The rowing is represented by the Italian shipyard company Lario Giuseppe Sinigaglia, which was founded in 1891. It is one of Italy's most important rowing companies and has provided several athletes to the Italian national team, also during the Olympic Games. Giuseppe Sinigaglia, who was the first Italian to win the Diamond Challenge Sculls, is also the most famous athlete in society, who took his name to honor the memory of the fallen war. 17 company crews won the gold medal in the world championships, 5 in the European championships, while the national wins are 100. The Lario Canoterers received the Golden Star on the sports merit of the Italian National Olympic Committee in 1967.

Just a few steps from the rowers' headquarters is the Yacht Club Como, a company created by the merger of two distinct entities: the Circle of Vela Como and Motonautica Italiana Lario.

Cycling

On seven occasions Como has been the site of arrival of a tour of the Giro d'Italia, the first in 1937 and the last in 2019.

• 1937 19th stage San Pellegrino Terme-Como, won by Marco Cimatti
• 1952 13th stage Bergamo-Como, won by Alfredo Pasotti
• 1952 14th stage of the Erba-Como (cron) Individual), won by Fausto Coppi
• 1957 17th stage Varese-Como, won by Alessandro Fantini
• 1957 17b stage Como-Como, won by Rik Van Steenbergen und
• 1987 20th stage Madesimo-Como, won by Paolo Rosola
• 2019 15th stage Ivrea-Como, won by Dario Cataldo

The lulago was the theater of the arrival of the Tour of Lombardy in almost every edition of the classic.

The gold medals won by Paolo Pedretti at the 1932 Los Angeles Games and at the 1992 Barcelona Games were won by Fabio Casartelli.

Ice hockey

The Como Hockey Association, founded in 1971, played two A-Series and an equal number A2 tournaments.

For a few years, a women's team, the Lario Halloween Hockey Club, played all the championships from 1990-1991 to 2006-2007, and came to 3rd place on six occasions. The company dissolved in 2007.

Basket

The Pool Comense 1872, the women's basketball section of the Gymnastica Comense 1872, is Italy's leading team, having won 15 (record) skulls, 5 Italian Copps and 6 Italian Supercoppes, which is also a national record. At the international level, it won the EuroLeague Women in 1993-1994 and 1994-1995 and the Mundialito in 1996. After finishing the 2011-2012 season in 6th place in Series A1, the team decides not to join the next championships to return active in 2015 and participate in the national B series.

The most important men's team is the Basketball League Como, which has spent time in National Division B. In the past, there has also been a 1872 male gym that played the final game of the Italian championship in 1922 and 1923.

Pallanuoto

There are two palanuotism companies in the city.

Como Swoto, which is playing the national A2 Championship, has also known international glory by winning the 1994 Comen Cup. In his story, he participated in a total of eight editions of the top championship. The same company has a women's water polo section disputing the A2 Series tournament, which was first promoted in 2012 after winning the B Series tournament.

The other city company is Pallanuoto Como, who is participating in the B-series championship. The president is Giovanni Data.

Rugby

A rugby team, founded in 2005, Rugby Como, is present at the Belvedere Sports Center and promotes a program to promote sport in schools in the city.

Screen

Comense Gymnastics 1872 is mainly known for its fencing section, which included Antonio Spallino, the Olympic medal in Melbourne in 1956, and Arianna Errigo, in London in 2012.

Ultimate

Como is also represented by a team of finals, the FrasbaDalLac, who, among other things, won the Spirit of The Game in the 2006 Italian Open Championship in Ultimate.

• Panorama of Como from Lake
• Funicular
  Como - Brunate
• Villa Geno

• Typical glimpse of the boats, the dome of the man and the Baradello Castle (on the hill)
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  View of Como da Brunate
• Castel Baradello