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Stories from the lake

Lake timeline

Two thousand years of the lake in order of date: from the Roman road along the western shore to the first steamboat, from the fall of the Isola Comacina to the Olginate dam. Each date leads to the story that tells it and to the place where it happened.

Dates
82
Stories
27
Periods
6
Como harbour with the jetty and moored boats, the cathedral dome on the right and the Brunate hill behind the town.
Photochrom Print Collection · Public domain

Only the dates from the story ‘Palazzo Terragni, rationalism beside the cathedral'All dates

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Twentieth century

1900–1999 · 2 dates

  1. The Novocomum, Como's first rationalist building

    Giuseppe Terragni completes the Novocomum, an apartment building with a curved volume on the corner that the people of Como nickname ‘the Ocean Liner'. Between the wars Como becomes one of the centres of Italian rationalism.

    Place: NovocomumStory: Palazzo Terragni, rationalism beside the cathedral

    The Novocomum at the crossroads, its rounded corner and balconies under a blue sky.

  2. Terragni completes the Casa del Fascio

    Fifty metres from the apse of the cathedral, Giuseppe Terragni completes the Como headquarters of the National Fascist Party, designed in 1932: a square of about thirty-three metres a side, faced in white marble, with no cornices or decoration. The building has since taken the name Palazzo Terragni.

    Place: Palazzo Terragni (former Casa del Fascio)Story: Palazzo Terragni, rationalism beside the cathedral

    The front of Giuseppe Terragni's Casa del Fascio in Como, seen square-on from the piazza, with a person in a yellow raincoat.