Nave span 5

St. Lucia is carved in the keystone. 

High on the pillar on the left under the dome we can read the date “MDCII”, 1602, when it was readapted in anticipation of the erection of the dome. .

The columns of red marble from Arzo (Switzerland), which support the organs, date back to 1624. 

Elegant pilasters with grotesque motifs dated 1515 were applied between these columns and the pillars of the nave. 

The seventeenth-century organs have the sound machine reorganized several times like the carvings of the cases: on the top of each of them there is a statue: on one side that of the Madonna Assunta, to whom the cathedral is dedicated, on the other St. Abbondio Bishop, the saint patron of Como and the diocese.

The pulpit is the work of the Cassina brothers from Meda (1742) . To realize it the statue of St. Andrea was removed, now relocated on the same pillar, but facing the high altar after recovery and restoration (2013). 

Under the northern organ, on the pillars behind the red marble columns, two reliefs by Rodari workshop face each other: the FIDES (towards east)  , the SPES (towards west)  ; two similar but by another artist reliefs with S. PROTO and S. GIACINTO are in high position under the organ     !**! ; in front of them under the other organ are the reliefs with the PACE and the CARITAS, while under the southern organ are two little devotional altars devoted to the saints LIBERATA and FAUSTINA, whose seventeenth century reliefs face each other.      

The banner of the Confraternita del Ss. Sacramento, embroidered and painted, was designed by the painter Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli also known as Morazzone who painted the medallions (1608-1609). On the side towards the nave you can appreciate the figure of St. Abbondio surrounded by episodes of his life.