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Como city and Wiki Loves Monuments Italia 2017
Data: 07 Sep 2017The largest photo contest in the world includes the monuments of the city
Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photographic competition to promote historic sites around the World through Wikimedia projects (mainly Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons). Everybody can participate.
There are a lot of historic monuments in all participating countries. The goal of Wiki Loves Monuments is to encourage people to take pictures of those monuments, and to put them under a free licence so that others may access them through the Internet. To achieve that, an international contest will take place in September 2017. The City of Como has included many monuments to this competition and it is participatin to the competition for the second year.
In September, you may upload as many pictures as you want of monuments that you have visited. Pictures don't have to be taken in September, but must be uploaded this month to be considered. At the end of the month, the contest jury will begin evaluating the photographs and will choose the best 10 pictures of the monuments in Italy, and ultimately in the world.
The following monuments beloging to the Municipality of Como are part of Wiki Loves Monuments Italia 2017:
| Monument | Address |
| Broletto | Piazza Duomo 2 |
| Fontana di Camerlata | Piazza Camerlata |
| Asilo Sant'Elia (external) | Via Andrea Alciato 13 |
| Le Mura e le Porte | Viale Varese, viale Carlo Cattaneo, viale Cesare Battisti, via Nazario Sauro |
| Life Electric | Diga foranea Piero Caldirola |
| Monumento ai caduti (War Memorial) | Via Giancarlo Puecher |
| Monumento alla Resistenza europea | Lungolago Mafalda di Savoia |
| Palazzo Cernezzi – (Courtyard) | Via Vittorio Emanuele II, 97 |
| Spazio Ratti – ex Chiesa di San Francesco (esterno) | Largo Spallino 1 |
| Tempio Voltiano (Museum Alessandro Volta) | Viale Marconi |
| Villa Olmo | Via Cantoni 1 |
| Faro Voltiano | Via Giacomo Scalini - loc. San Maurizio - BRUNATE |
All information on how to take part to Wiki Loves Monuments Italia can be found on http://wikilovesmonuments.wikimedia.it/ (in Italian)
On September 23rd the Municipality of Como organizes a Wikigita please sign up to the free event on the official page (in Italian).
At this link you can find all the participating monuments in the Province of Como