Tempio Voltiano
Domed rotunda modeled on the Pantheon, preserving original instruments of the battery's inventor.
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This guide to the Tempio Voltiano in Como, on Lake Como, follows Alessandro Volta from a demonstration of his new electric pile before Napoleon Bonaparte around 1800 to the fireproof rotunda built in his honor near where he was born and died. It traces a disaster in 1899, when a grand exhibition marking the invention's centenary caught fire and destroyed instruments and letters from Volta's own workbench. The city turned to architect Federico Frigerio and industrialist Francesco Somaini to rebuild in stone and marble instead.
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