VOLTA TEMPLE, COMO, Volta Temple, Como

Hi, I am Rick, your personal guide, and together with MyWoWo I’d like to welcome you to one of the wonders of the world: the Volta Temple.

The Volta Temple is the most important symbol of recognition by the city to its most illustrious citizen, the great scientist Alessandro Volta, born in Como in 1745.

But who was Alessandro Volta? The inventor of the battery, of course, but not only that!

You should know, in fact, that throughout his life, this great scientist made some of the most important discoveries of the entire 19th century, paving the way for all subsequent studies in the field of electricity, but also related to flammable gases, first and foremost methane, which he discovered....