Como

Como Cathedral

Today
Visit duration: 30 min – 1 h
Booking: Not required
Area: First Basin

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Why go

The cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta was begun in 1396 and completed in 1740, and it brings together Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque, from the Gothic doorway to Filippo Juvarra's eighteenth-century dome.

The facade is the work of the Rodari, and on it sit the statues of Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger, two pagan writers born in Como. Sixteenth-century Flemish and Italian tapestries hang in the nave. The Broletto stands beside the cathedral.

From the Gothic doorway to the eighteenth-century dome, three styles in one building.
Sixteenth-century Flemish and Italian tapestries hang in the nave.

Highlights

The Pliny statues on the facade
Filippo Juvarra's dome
The Broletto next door

Getting there

In Como's historic centre, a quarter of an hour on foot from Como San Giovanni and less from Como Nord Lago.

The Duomo's Gothic front, with its rose window and pinnacles, beside the Broletto in bands of white, grey and pink marble, seen from low down in the square under a blue sky.

Accessibility

In the facade, beside the central door that is almost always closed, there are two side doors 106 centimetres wide; the aisles can be visited without obstacles, and three steps lead up to the altar.

Visiting

Opening

What else is open now

Tourist visits Monday to Friday 10:30 to 17:30 and Saturday 10:45 to 16:30; no tourist visits on Sundays, on holy days of obligation, or on 6 January, 15 and 31 August, 1 and 2 November, and 8, 25, 26 and 31 December

For prayer it is open 7:30 to 19:00 on weekdays, and on Sundays until the end of the last Mass, around 20:00. No photographs during services.

Tickets

Part of it is free, along the side aisles.

Read on

The ticket, online or at the Broletto Infopoint, opens the transept, the wooden choir, the sacristies and the upper walkways, and also covers the civic museums

Part of it is free, along the side aisles; the ticket, online or at the Broletto Infopoint, opens the transept, the wooden choir, the sacristies and the upper walkways, and also covers the civic museums

Directions On the map Official source

DestinationsComoThe city of silk and rationalist architecture, with the lake reaching right into the centre.

Practical information

Address

Via Maestri Comacini 6, 22100 Como

Telephone

+39 031 3312275

Accessibility

Wheelchair accessible

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Facilities

Car park 107 m away · paid
Public toilets 175 m away

Distances from the point on the map.

Webcams

Como, the city and the first basinLive video · Skyline Webcams · 50 m
Brunate, looking northUpdated image · Ristorante Hotel Falchetto, su WeatherCam · 1.2 km