Museums & culture
Santa Marta, Carate Urio
Carate's first parish church, at the top of a stairway lined with the Way of the Cross chapels of 1752, with a Romanesque bell tower and frescoes from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century.
2.2 km
Laglio
Frank's Pyramid, Laglio
- Visit duration
- 10–20 min
- Booking
- Not required
- Area
- First Basin
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Why go
Laglio's pyramid is the funerary monument of the physician Joseph Frank (1771–1842), a pupil of Alessandro Volta and a lecturer at the University of Pavia.
It was built between 1850 and 1851 and inaugurated in June 1852, when his remains were moved here from the nearby cemetery. About twenty metres high, it has three Egyptian-style portals and a marble medallion with Frank's portrait; the façade inscription bears the year 1851. Frank had proposed a pyramid in Como as a monument to Volta, but the committee chose another design. He later reused the form for his own tomb, inspired by the Pyramid of Cestius in Rome.
- An Egyptian-style pyramid above a lake village.
- A mausoleum inspired by the Pyramid of Cestius in Rome.
Highlights
- The granite pyramid of about twenty metres
- Luigi Agliati's marble medallion
- The three Egyptian doors with wrought-iron gates
- The cast-iron inscription of 1851
Getting there
- It stands in Laglio's cemetery, above the Via Regina road between Carate Urio and Brienno.
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Sources and credits
- Maps, parking, services and distances: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
- Freely licensed photographs: authors and licences under Photograph credits.