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Monument to the Fallen

Visit duration
20–45 min
Booking
Not required
Area
First Basin
The memorial's pale stone tower against the sky, flags on top and the hills behind.SteTaglia · CC BY-SA 4.0
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  • Maurizio_Moro5153 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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The memorial's pale stone tower against the sky, flags on top and the hills behind.

SteTaglia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Why go

The monument was inaugurated on 4 November 1933 in memory of Como's dead of the Great War, among them the Futurist architect Antonio Sant'Elia, killed at the front in 1916.

In 1930 Marinetti proposed building it from a 1914 drawing by Sant'Elia for a power station. Enrico Prampolini prepared a design and Attilio Terragni took it forward; with the work under way, Giuseppe Terragni simplified it, chose the stones and designed the crypt. The thirty-metre tower is of pale stone and stands on the lakefront beside the Tempio Voltiano. Inside, a forty-tonne monolith carries the names of six hundred and fifty of the fallen, and a narrow stair climbs to the top, from where you see the city, the harbour and the lake's first basin.

  • The lakefront tower can be seen from the shore and from the water.
  • It combines a Futurist drawing by Sant'Elia with Terragni's Rationalist work, a few steps from the Tempio Voltiano.

Highlights

  • The climb to the top, with the view over the first basin
  • The monolith with the names of the fallen
  • The crypt designed by Terragni
  • The silhouette from the lakefront and the boat

Getting there

  • On foot from the centre along the lake, past the Tempio Voltiano: about ten minutes from Piazza Cavour.
  • From Como San Giovanni station, a dozen minutes on foot.
Inside, the monolith with the names of Como's fallen of 1915–1918.Maurizio_Moro5153 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Accessibility

  • The top is reached only by a steep, narrow staircase.

Practical information

Address

Viale Puecher, 22100 Como

Facilities

  • Car park 82 m away
  • Public toilets 112 m away · accessible

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Updated 22 October 2026

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