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Life Electric

Visit duration
20–40 min
Booking
Not required
Area
First Basin
The steel sculpture at the tip of the breakwater, visitors around it, seen from the boat.SteTaglia · CC BY-SA 4.0
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The steel sculpture at the tip of the breakwater, visitors around it, seen from the boat.

SteTaglia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Why go

Life Electric is a stainless-steel sculpture by Daniel Libeskind dedicated to Alessandro Volta, inaugurated in 2015 at the tip of the Piero Caldirola breakwater.

Its two opposing wave-shaped curves evoke the voltage between the terminals of a battery. The surfaces reflect the sky and water. The Tempio Voltiano on the shore and the Faro Voltiano above Brunate also commemorate Volta. Libeskind gave the design to the city; the Amici di Como association promoted its construction and the renewal of the breakwater. It is reached on foot along the breakwater from the Lungolago Mafalda di Savoia.

  • A walk out over the water to the middle of the first basin, Como behind you and the mountains ahead.
  • The steel surfaces reflect the sky and water around the breakwater.

Highlights

  • The two steel sine curves mirroring sky and water
  • The walk along the Piero Caldirola breakwater
  • The view of the Tempio Voltiano and Brunate
  • Sunset from the tip of the breakwater

Getting there

  • On foot from Piazza Cavour along the lake and then out on the breakwater: about a quarter of an hour.
  • From Como San Giovanni station, a quarter of an hour on foot.
Sunset behind the hills of the first basin, people on the breakwater and the sculpture against the light.Fabioarg · CC BY-SA 4.0

Practical information

Address

Diga Foranea Piero Caldirola, 22100 Como

Facilities

  • Car park 239 m away · paid
  • Public toilets 246 m away

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Updated 22 October 2026

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