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Monument to the European Resistance

Gianni Colombo's monument in Como's lakeside gardens, with stones from the Nazi camps and from Hiroshima and the words of people condemned to death in the Second World War.

Visit duration
15–30 min
Booking
Not required
Area
First Basin
The monument's entrance in the lakeside gardens: the stairway between the sloping walls and the metal plate above.Qazxsw · Public domain
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The monument's entrance in the lakeside gardens: the stairway between the sloping walls and the metal plate above.

Qazxsw · Public domain

Why go

The monument is the work of the Milanese sculptor Gianni Colombo and was unveiled on 28 May 1983 by President Sandro Pertini.

It stands in the lakeside gardens, on the Lungolago Mafalda di Savoia, a few steps from the Tempio Voltiano. A stairway between two sloping walls leads into an enclosure. It holds stones from the Nazi camps and from the city of Hiroshima, and plates bearing the words written by people condemned to death in the Second World War.

  • The words of those condemned to death, in the middle of Como's lakefront.
  • The path between the sloping walls, in the lakeside gardens beside the Tempio Voltiano.

Highlights

  • The stones from the Nazi camps and Hiroshima
  • The plates with the words of the condemned
  • The stairway between the sloping walls

Getting there

  • On foot along the lake from Piazza Cavour towards Villa Olmo, in the lakeside gardens, just before the Tempio Voltiano.

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