After two years of activity in the enchanting countryside of Monferrine and one year on the verbena covered shores of Lake Maggiore, Progetto Ecate has now moved in the lively city of Como, where it has bought an old but completely renovated 135 sqmt workshop for the arts and crafts.

Sapphire Lake Como has been Italy's prestige romantic lake ever since the early days of the Roman empire, when it was called Lario and the Plinys wrote of the luxuriant beauty surrounding their villas on its shores. It was just the sort of beauty that enraptured the children of the Romantic era, inspiring some of the best works of Verdi, Rossini and Liszt, as well as good and bad English verse to fill an anthology. And it is still there, the Lake Como of the Shelleys and Wordsworths, the grand villas and lush gardens, the mountains and beloved irregular shores of wooded promontories.

Magnificently located at the southern tip of the lake's left leg, Como is a lively little city that has long had a bent for science, silk and architecture. In AD 23 it was the birthplace of Pliny the Elder, compiler of antiquity's greatest work of hearsay, the Natural history, and latter it produced his nephew and heir Pliny the Younger, whose letters are one of the main sources for information on the cultured Roman life of the period. Como's historic centre, its street plan almost unchanged since Roman times, opens up to the lake at Piazza Cavour, with its cafés, hotels, steamer landing and pretty views. From Piazza Cavour, Via Plinio leads back to Como's elegant salon, the Piazza Duomo. The chief monuments are all attacked: the Torre del Comune to the charming white, grey and red marble striped town hall or Broletto (built in 1215), one of the rare Romanesque symbols of civic might in the North; and this in turn of the magnificent Duomo (1396); the whole now looking spanking new thanks to a through cleaning for its 700th birthday. The core of the city is called città murata and it is packed with museums, galleries, shops and cafés. Outside the walls, Como is framed by beaches.

Progetto Ecate Workshop is located at Via Palestro 7, 1 km away from the città murata and close to Stazione Borghi and Como University.
If you require assistance with physical access or interpretation please contact us prior to your visit.