Lake Como Design Festival

Design shows in historic villas and palazzi around Como, every year in September.

The programme for the 2026 edition

The eighth edition, on the theme Confine (Border), runs from 12 to 20 September 2026 in Como and Lecco. Venues include Villa del Grumello in Como and the Politecnico di Milano's Lecco campus.

Nearby: places, experiences, services

Distances as the crow flies from where the event is held.

Museums & culture
Giuseppe Garibaldi Historical Museum, Como
Como's Risorgimento and twentieth century in Palazzo Olginati, where Garibaldi stayed in 1866: from the Five Days of 1848 to San Fermo and the world wars, with the Olginati drawing rooms and a Neapolitan crib.
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Museums & culture
Paolo Giovio Archaeological Museum, Como
Prehistoric and Roman Como in Palazzo Giovio: from the Prestino stele to the horsemen frieze, with nineteenth-century collections from Egypt and Greece.
100 m
Attractions
Porta Torre
Como's medieval gate, forty metres high: since 1192 the way into the walled town from Milan.
150 m
Museums & culture
Pinacoteca Civica, Palazzo Volpi
From Romanesque capitals to Como's abstract painters, in a seventeenth-century palace inside the walled town.
150 m
Attractions
Palazzo Cernezzi
The sixteenth- and seventeenth-century palace that has been Como's town hall since 1853, with its arcaded courtyard.
200 m
Attractions
Garibaldi Monument, Como
Vincenzo Vela's bronze Garibaldi on Piazza Vittoria in Como, unveiled in 1889 on the spot where the Austrians surrendered in 1848.
250 m

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The programme for the 2026 edition

Giuseppe Garibaldi Historical Museum, Como

Paolo Giovio Archaeological Museum, Como

Porta Torre

Pinacoteca Civica, Palazzo Volpi

Palazzo Cernezzi

Garibaldi Monument, Como

Como... che spettacolo!

Como Book Fair

Como Contemporary Festival

Gera una Volta book fair