One dayA rainy day
A rainy day in Como, all on foot and mostly under cover: the Silk Museum, the cathedral and the Tempio Voltiano.
Public transport
A winter weekend
Como's churches, architecture and theatre, then Brunate by funicular.
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- Suggested base
- Como, two nights
- Transport
- Public transport
- Pace
- Relaxed
- Best season
- Winter
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Two days based in Como: the historic centre, Sant'Abbondio, rationalist buildings and an evening at the Teatro Sociale if the programme allows.
On the second day, take the funicular to Brunate; on clear days the view reaches the Alps. The funicular runs every day of the year and climbs in seven minutes.
Suited to
- Anyone who likes cities
- Short trips out of Milan
- Photographers
Book ahead
- The Teatro Sociale, if the opera season is running.
The stops, today
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- Day 1
Como in winter
Romanesque, rationalism and an evening at the theatre.
Morning
Sant'Abbondio
Five Romanesque naves and a fourteenth-century fresco cycle in the apse, ten minutes from the cathedral.
Lunch
Lunch inside the walls
In the streets around piazza Volta.
Afternoon
The rationalist circuit
Palazzo Terragni, the Novocomum, the Sant'Elia nursery: buildings still in use, seen from the street.
Evening
Teatro Sociale
An evening in an 1813 horseshoe theatre.
- Day 2
Up to Brunate
On clear days the view from Brunate reaches Monte Rosa.
Transfer: Funicular7 min
Morning
Funicular to Brunate
Seven minutes and five hundred metres higher; on clear days the view reaches Monte Rosa.
Lunch
Lunch at Brunate
Before an afternoon between the church and the village's Liberty villas.
Transfer: On foot15 min
Afternoon
Sant'Andrea
Three minutes from the funicular, the vaults frescoed by the Recchi at the end of the seventeenth century.
Transfer: Funicular7 min
Evening
Down again, and the last evening
The funicular runs into the evening: you come down with the city lights on below you.
Worth knowing
- In winter Villa Carlotta and the gardens of Villa Melzi are closed; in Como the park of Villa Olmo is open every day.
- In winter the boats run fewer services and the last evening sailing leaves much earlier than in summer: look it up in the Navigazione Laghi timetable before leaving Como by boat.
- Mountain roads can close for snow or ice.
