. Switzerland: and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol : handbook for travellers . V2-5, B. I1/2, dej. 3, D. 4, pens. 8-12 fr.; Bellevue (PI. b), R. 21/2-3, B. iy4, dej. 21/2, D. 31/2, pens, from7 fr., these five in the Piazza Cavour. Cafes-Restaurants at all the hotel?. Also, Barchetta (with rooms tolet), in the Piazza Cavour. Baths in the building to the W. of the Hot. Plinius, with cafe. Lake-baths by the Giardino Pubblico (to the left, beyond the pier; bath andtowels 70 c). Local Steamboats ply ten times daily between Como (second stopping-place: Como Fmiicolare, see
. Switzerland: and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol : handbook for travellers . V2-5, B. I1/2, dej. 3, D. 4, pens. 8-12 fr.; Bellevue (PI. b), R. 21/2-3, B. iy4, dej. 21/2, D. 31/2, pens, from7 fr., these five in the Piazza Cavour. Cafes-Restaurants at all the hotel?. Also, Barchetta (with rooms tolet), in the Piazza Cavour. Baths in the building to the W. of the Hot. Plinius, with cafe. Lake-baths by the Giardino Pubblico (to the left, beyond the pier; bath andtowels 70 c). Local Steamboats ply ten times daily between Como (second stopping-place: Como Fmiicolare, see below) and Villa IOlmo (p. 515), Tacernola (seeabove), Cernobbio, Pizzo, Blevio, and Torno; fare 20 c, Sun. 30 c Como (705; pop. 31,500), the Roman Comum, is a thrivingindustrial town, with large silk-factories and dye-works. It issituated on the S. bay of the Lake of Como, at the foot of-verdantrocky heights, dotted with villas and villages. — The most animat-ed parts of the town are the Piazza Cavour, near the pier, and thestreets running thence to the W. along the lake to the Giardino. MONZA. VII. Route 114. 515 Pubblico. — A short street leads to the from the Piazza Cavourto the Piazza del Duomo, on the left side of which is the Broletto(completed in 1215; now a record-office), constructed of alternatecourses of light and dark stone. The Cathedral, built entirely ofmarble, is one of the best in N. Italy. Begun in 1396 in the Gothicstyle, it was altered in the Renaissance style by Tommaso Bodariin 1487-1526. The richly sculptured main portal and N. side-portalare specially noteworthy. Beside the former are statues (erected in1498) of the elder and younger Pliny, both of whom were nativesof Comum. — The little Piazza Volta, to the of the PiazzaCavour, contains a statue of Count Al. Volta (1745-1827), the physi-cist, another native of Como. — In the Piazza Vittoria is a bronzeStatue of Garibaldi, by Vela (1889). — In the Viale Varese, border-ed by plane-tr
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