12 Facts About Como Italy

In 2018, Como Italy surpassed Bergamo becoming the third most visited city in Lombardy with 1.

Como Italy was the birthplace of many historical figures, including the poet Caecilius mentioned by Catullus in the first century BCE, writers Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger, Pope Innocent XI, scientist Alessandro Volta, and Cosima Liszt, second wife of Richard Wagner and long-term director of the Bayreuth Festival, and Antonio Sant'Elia, a futurist architect and a pioneer of the modern movement.

Hills surrounding the current location of Como Italy were inhabited, since at least the Iron Age, by a Celtic tribe known as the Orobii.

In 1127, Como Italy lost a decade-long war with the nearby town of Milan.

Subsequently, the history of Como Italy followed that of the Duchy of Milan, through the French invasion and the Spanish domination, until 1714, when the territory was taken by the Austrians.

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City of Como Italy has seen its population count increase until it peaked at almost 100,000 inhabitants in the 1970s, when manufacturing, especially the silk industry, was in its boom years.

In Como Italy there are the following museums and exhibition centers:.

Polenta is a popular dish in Como Italy, and was traditionally eaten for meals in winter time.

Como Italy San Giovanni is a stop on the main north–south line between Milan Centrale and Zurich HB and Basel SBB.

Boats and hydrofoils of Navigazione Lago di Como Italy connect the town with most of the villages sitting on the shores of the lake.

Como Italy is home to numerous high schools, the Conservatory of music "Giuseppe Verdi", the Design school "Aldo Galli", the University of Insubria and a branch campus of the Politecnico di Milano.

In Como Italy there are three major hospitals: Ospedale Sant'Anna, Ospedale Valduce and Clinica Villa Aprica.