Lake Como parking in Como city centre – Arena del Teatro Sociale
🛡️ Safety is our priority: ensuring safety for cars and people.
🚗 Wide, comfortable parking spaces, among the widest in Como
⚠️ Access is permitted only to cars with a maximum length of five metres. Vans, campers, motorcycles and bicycles are not permitted.
✅ For your benefit and ours: please always read the rules and rates displayed. You may leave the car park free of charge within the first 5 minutes of entering.
- Open 24/7every day
- CCTVnumber-plate recognition
- Card, cash, EasyParkcontactless too
- Outside the ZTLno traffic-zone gates
- Como city centre2 min walk to the Cathedral
- 70 spacescars up to 5 m
Visiting Lake Como? Parcheggio Arena is a private, public-use, automated and unattended car park with 70 spaces in the heart of Como, at Via Bellini 21. CCTV, number-plate recognition, open 24 hours a day.
EasyPark Camera Park
Please install the EasyPark app and enable Camera Park before arriving: the camera reads your number plate and opens the barrier on entry and exit – no ticket, no pay machine. Please approach the column slowly. EasyPark code: 20559.
Access rules
- One single gate for entry and exit: enter only on green. A red light means a car is leaving.
- Wait your turn in the queuing lane on Via Bellini at the stop line. Anyone attempting to enter through the entry gate on a red light is automatically barred for 24 hours, without being able to park.
Automated car park with number-plate recognition
The car park is fully automated and recognises number plates on entry and exit. On entry, the system reads your number plate and prints it on your ticket. On exit, the camera in the exit lane recognises your number plate and opens the barrier automatically, provided you have already paid at the automatic pay stations. Please approach the exit column slowly so that your number plate can be read.
Entrance and traffic light
How to exit
- Please pay for your stay at the automatic pay stations before driving into the exit lane (EasyPark Camera Park users pay via the app). Prepaid card holders must have active credit on their card before driving into the exit lane.
- Driving into the exit lane without having paid is strictly prohibited: it causes queues at the exit and prevents customers waiting outside from entering the car park.
- Automatic exit: the exit barrier opens automatically thanks to number-plate recognition. Please approach the exit column slowly.
- Please stop for two seconds at the entry column and at the exit column so that your number plate can be read.
- If your number plate is not read at the exit, please scan your paid entry ticket at the exit column.
💳 Rechargeable prepaid cards
Rechargeable prepaid cards with no expiry date are on sale, with a 5% loyalty discount on every transaction and automatic barrier opening on entry and exit through recognition of the number plate linked to the card. You may request one at the manual cash desk by filling in the paper application form. If your number plate is not read on entry or exit, or if you use the card with a second car, please scan the card manually on the window marked with the prepaid card icon.
⚠️ Car park rules
- 🚗 Reserved car park: access is permitted only to cars with a maximum length of 5 metres. Motorcycles, campervans and bicycles are not admitted.
- 🚭 Smoking is strictly prohibited throughout the car park for fire safety reasons. Offenders will be subject to the penalties provided for by law.
- 🚻 The car park has no toilet facilities.
- ⛔ The Teatro Sociale is a historic site. Anyone found using the area as an open-air toilet will be immediately removed from the car park together with their car, reported to the public security authorities in accordance with the law and permanently barred from the car park. They will also be invoiced for the cost of sanitising the area.
- 📱 Stays of more than 24 hours are permitted only if notified in advance by SMS to +39 338 4454556 📞. The SMS must state the car’s number plate. This notice is required for safety reasons: it allows the car park to be cleared in an emergency and the customer to be traced.
- ↔️ We simply ask you to park your car straight, within the white lines, so that no cars are damaged.
Services
- Wide, comfortable parking spacesamong the widest in Como
- Number-plate recognitionon entry and exit
- Rubber bollardsmarking each space
- Active CCTVacross the whole area
- Safetymonitored, well-lit car park
- Wheelchair accessiblepedestrian gate with ramp
- Rechargeable prepaid cardsno expiry, 5% loyalty discount
Active CCTV
♿ Accessibility
The car park has a pedestrian gate with a ramp, accessible by wheelchair, for people with disabilities to enter and leave. The pedestrian access for wheelchair users and people with disabilities is on Via Indipendenza, about 50 m away, as shown by the signs.
Pedestrian routes
About us and our location
Parcheggio Arena del Teatro Sociale is located directly behind the Teatro Sociale di Como, an Italian historic monument built in 1813 and opened in 1813. It lies within the walled city, home to around a thousand shops. The street market, held on alternate days, is about a 10-minute walk away, and Lake Como, with its charming lakeside promenade, is just 5 minutes away.
📍 In the heart of Como: everything within walking distance
Parcheggio Arena is the ideal starting point for enjoying central Como. We welcome you to:
- 🛍️ shop in the walled town, with around a thousand shops
- 🎭 go to the theatre: the Teatro Sociale is right next door
- 🌊 stroll along the lakefront, about 5 minutes on foot
- ☕ have breakfast in the many cafés of the centre
- 🍽️ dine in the restaurants of the old town
- 🏨 stay in comfort: a convenient location also for guests of the hotels and the many B&Bs in Como city centre
🏛️ A historic place: the Teatro Sociale and its Arena
The car park lies in the Arena of the Teatro Sociale di Como, a theatre designed by the architect Giuseppe Cusi and inaugurated on 28 August 1813, right by the city walls.
📜 History of the Teatro Sociale di Como and its Arena →
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