Until17Jan 2027
Opera season at the Teatro Sociale di Como
Opera at the Teatro Sociale on Piazza Verdi, with productions from the OperaLombardia network.
Teatro Sociale di Como, Piazza Verdi
Brunate
Brunate's Liberty villas
- Visit duration
- 30 min – 1 h
- Booking
- Not required
- Area
- First Basin
- Luca acquistapace · Public domain
- Andrzej Otrębski · CC BY-SA 4.0
Why go
Brunate's Liberty and eclectic villas are holiday homes built between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
They stand along Via Pissarottino, Via Roma, Via Pirotta and Via Scalini. Below the funicular station, Villa Pirotta Bonacossa was designed in 1902 by Federico Frigerio for the industrialist Attilio Pirotta, with decoration by Lodovico Pogliaghi. Villa Cantaluppi Giuliani, built around 1910, has loggia balconies and ornament in cement, wrought iron, glass and ceramics. Villa Monti Ferrario Franceschini, the town hall, has sgraffito decoration on its façades. The Chalet Sonzogno was exhibited in Turin in 1902 and offered as a prize by the newspaper Il Secolo in 1904. Many villas are private homes, viewed from the street.
- A stroll among the Liberty and eclectic villas, a few steps from the funicular.
- Villa Pirotta Bonacossa below the station and the town hall decorated in sgraffito.
Highlights
- Villa Pirotta Bonacossa, by Federico Frigerio
- Villa Cantaluppi Giuliani and its ornament
- The Chalet Sonzogno, a prefabricated house of 1902
Getting there
- Villa Pirotta Bonacossa is just below the upper station of the funicular from Como; the others are passed on foot along Via Pirotta, Via Roma, Via Pissarottino and Via Scalini.
On the map
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Sources and credits
- Maps, parking, services and distances: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
- Freely licensed photographs: authors and licences under Photograph credits.
Sources and credits
- Maps, parking, services and distances: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
- Freely licensed photographs: authors and licences under Photograph credits.