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Broletto, Como

Visit duration
10–30 min
Booking
Not required
Area
First Basin
The Broletto with its clock tower, portico arches, triple windows and balcony, beside the side of the cathedral, under a blue sky.Maurizio Moro5153 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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The Broletto with its clock tower, portico arches, triple windows and balcony, beside the side of the cathedral, under a blue sky.

Maurizio Moro5153 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Why go

The Broletto is Como's medieval civic palace beside the cathedral, with a façade banded in white, grey and red marble.

Home to the municipal institutions from the thirteenth century, it retains an inscription dated 1215 and has Gothic additions. On the main façade four pointed arches support the portico, with three triple windows above. The civic tower held the bell that called public assemblies. After the fire of 1408, Pietro da Breggia's restoration ended in 1436. Cathedral construction reduced the palace's southern part. Conversion into a theatre was completed in 1764; from 1813 it housed the notarial archive. Restoration in 1895 removed the eighteenth-century additions and reopened the windows; the tower was rebuilt in 1926–1927. The hall hosts exhibitions and meetings.

  • Como's medieval civic palace, beside the cathedral façade.
  • The marble bands and triple windows of the façade on Piazza Duomo.

Highlights

  • The four pointed arches of the portico
  • The left-hand triple window, from which the authorities spoke
  • The civic tower, rebuilt in 1926-27

Getting there

  • On Piazza Duomo, against the north side of the cathedral, in the old town a few minutes from the lakefront and Como Nord Lago station.
A triple window of the Broletto up close: three arches on slender columns knotted halfway up, between bands of white, grey and red stone, the hillside reflected in the glass.Marimari52 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Accessibility

  • The exhibition hall is on the first floor, reached by stairs or by lift.

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Sources and credits

Verified at source1 Oct 2026Comune di Como — Oggi a Comoopens in a new tab

Sources and credits

Verified at source1 Oct 2026Comune di Como — Oggi a Comoopens in a new tab