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Camerlata Fountain

Visit duration
10–15 min
Booking
Not required
Area
First Basin
The fountain in the middle of the roundabout at dusk, its rings lit pink above the spheres and car light trails around it.Maurizio Moro · CC BY-SA 4.0
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The fountain in the middle of the roundabout at dusk, its rings lit pink above the spheres and car light trails around it.

Maurizio Moro · CC BY-SA 4.0

Why go

The Camerlata Fountain is a work by Cesare Cattaneo and Mario Radice, designed for Piazza Corsica in Como.

A full-size model was exhibited in Milan's Parco Sempione at the sixth Triennale in 1936. The fountain was rebuilt at Camerlata in 1962. It is nine metres high, with a metal structure clad in cement and marble aggregate. Four projecting horizontal rings alternate with four spheres; a low circular basin and another upright ring complete the composition. The circular forms relate to the square's role as a road junction connecting routes to Milan, Varese, Cantù and Como.

  • Cattaneo and Radice's composition of rings and spheres, combining architecture and abstract art.
  • The fountain at Camerlata, at the foot of the Baradello hill.

Highlights

  • The stacked rings
  • The spheres between one ring and the next
  • The upright ring beside the circular basin

Getting there

  • In Piazza Camerlata, south of the centre, at the foot of the Baradello hill.

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