Parco Mosaici di Blevio

In Blevio's Girola hamlet, public green spaces form an open-air gallery of mosaic art. The Parco Mosaici was inaugurated in June 2016 through a citizen-led project, with mosaic-decorated benches and artworks overlooking Lake Como toward Como and Cernobbio.

Why it matters

Most lakefront parks offer a view; this one offers an argument — that a small village can make contemporary art part of its everyday landscape. The Comune di Blevio formally approved the "Parco mosaici di Blevio" project and inaugurated the park in June 2016, choosing mosaic precisely because the technique withstands weather in open-air settings. The collection has developed over time, making the park an evolving public-art project within the Girola hamlet.

What to notice

Mosaic-decorated benches overlook the Como branch of the lake and the opposite shore toward Cernobbio. Other works, by artists and local students, appear along the village's public green spaces. Glass and stone tesserae set against lake-washed plaster create contrasts of material and colour, while the green spaces themselves remain part of everyday village life.

Context and history

The project originated in 2015 with a proposal to the Comune di Blevio, whose Giunta approved the creation of artistic routes along public paths and parks in the municipality. The choice of mosaic was deliberate and practical: works placed outdoors must survive sun, rain and frost, and tessellated surfaces do. The park was officially inaugurated in June 2016, and the collection it opened with has been treated by the administration as a living project ever since rather than a finished work. The project reflects Blevio's wider history of public art, including the grave of soprano Giuditta Pasta and the memory of Bellini's residencies at Villa Roccabruna.