Volta's temple 

A small Pantheon in Como? 

Built on the occasion of the centenary of the scientist's death, the Volta’s temple was designed by the architect Federico Frigerio, taking the famous Pantheon in Rome as his inspiration. 

Since you are already inside, you will certainly have noticed the numerous scientific instruments on the display: these are in fact some original objects (recognizable thanks to a plumb bob) and accurate reproductions of the instruments lost in the great fire of 1899 that destroyed the exhibition set up to celebrate the centenary of the battery. 

While the Volta’s Temple is certainly one of the most visited monuments in the city, it is important to know that in September 1927 an International Congress of Physicists was held in the nearby Carducci Institute to mark the centenary of Volta's death. 

The event was also attended by 12 Nobel Prize winners and also 7 future Nobel Prize winners. 

Werner Heisenberg, Max Planck, Ettore Majorana, Enrico Fermi, Guglielmo Marconi, Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr, who, right in the city of Como, enunciated the Complementarity Principle of quantum mechanics for the first time!

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