The author of the first encyclopaedia in history, Pliny the Elderand his nephew, Pliny the Younger, whose letters spawnedthe myth of Lake Como as a holiday resort. Alessandro Volta,the inventor of the battery. And, between ancient timesand the modern age, the founder of the first museum, Paolo Giovio.These are the most important exponents of the genius loci of Como,and it is to them that the Park "From Pliny to Volta.