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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Como

3 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Como, Italy

Updated August 23, 2022

Unusual Attractions in Como

Como, Italy

Tempio Voltiano

Old batteries and frog skeletons reside in this lakeside monument to Alessandro Volta.

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Roman Baths of Como

This 1st-century CE Roman bath sits under a carpark.

Como, Italy

Scala del Paradiso

This trail was once used to smuggle cigarettes, sugar, and other black market goods between Italy and Switzerland.

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Balcony of Italy (Balcone d'Italia)

The Sighignola summit on the Swiss border offers views so breathtaking it's been named one of the most beautiful places in Italy.

11 miles from Como

Torba, Italy

Faceless Nuns of the Torba Monastery

An unsettling painting of three faceless sisters that is surrounded by history and legend.

11 miles from Como

Limbiate, Italy

Mombello Psychiatric Hospital

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

13 miles from Como

Consonno, Italy

Consonno

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

14 miles from Como

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