Travel · Italy
Milan Garibaldi
650 mabout 8 min
Worth the walk
Get off at Garibaldi FS and walk the three places in one go. The one to spend time on is 10 Corso Como.
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The walk · 650 m, about 8 min
From Garibaldi FS to 10 Corso Como, Passeggiata Boris Pasternak and Piazzale Antonio Baiamonti.
It begins in a courtyard thick with green, goes down a stone-paved street, and ends at a junction just outside Porta Volta.
10 Corso Como, a courtyard and a garden café
Corso Como 10.
Gallerist and publisher Carla Sozzani founded it in 1990. It has branches in Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai, and this is the original building.
Its 3,000 square metres hold an exhibition space, a library, a garden café and a research boutique. See the exhibition, then rest in the garden café.
The courtyard path is thick with green on both sides, plants grow on every balcony, and a black metal frame cuts across the front.
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If you want to go inside
Passeggiata Boris Pasternak, a stone-paved street
About 400 m from 10 Corso Como, around 5 minutes.
A modern building with a run of columns stands on the left, and shop signs light the stone-paved road on the right. It is a street to walk through on the way to the next junction, not one for buying or eating.
Piazzale Antonio Baiamonti, the junction outside Porta Volta
About 250 m from Passeggiata Boris Pasternak, around 3 minutes.
The roads divide here. This is where the new road to Como, officially Via Carlo Farini, branched off from Via Ceresio. A yellow tram passes across it.
The Museo della Resistenza is due to go into the second pyramid building on the square, twin of the Fondazione Feltrinelli building. The land was a petrol station for more than 60 years, and clearing it turned up traces of the Spanish walls.
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Passeggiata Boris Pasternak is for looking at buildings as you pass. The museum at Baiamonti is still to come, so end at the junction with the trams going by.