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200VOLTeVOLTA — the Alessandro Volta bicentenary
Two hundred years since Volta's death: talks, visits and exhibitions, in Como and beyond.
Tempio Voltiano, Villa del Grumello and other venues
Como
Villa Geno, Como
- Visit duration
- 20 min – 1 h
- Booking
- Not required
- Area
- First Basin
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Why go
Villa Geno is a Neoclassical house on the point at the end of Viale Geno, on the eastern shore of the first basin.
The public park includes the fountain in the lake, built between 1948 and 1951 to a design by Renato Uslenghi. In the nineteenth century the Marchesi Cornaggia Medici had the villa rebuilt by Giacomo Tazzini; ownership passed to the Comune of Como in 1911. The façade facing the lake retains its late Neoclassical forms, altered by later work. The lakeside promenade leads to the point, the park and the lido.
- The green point where Viale Geno ends, with the fountain shooting up from the lake.
- In summer the lido, one of the town's two, with a beach and pools.
Highlights
- The villa's late Neoclassical lake front
- The public park on the point
- The 1950s lido
Getting there
- It is at the end of Viale Geno, on the east shore of the first basin, about a kilometre's walk along the lake from the lower station of the Brunate funicular; the lido is at Viale Geno 13.
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Sources and credits
Verified at source7 Oct 2026
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Sources and credits
Verified at source7 Oct 2026
Sources (2)
- Maps, parking, services and distances: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
- Freely licensed photographs: authors and licences under Photograph credits.