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Starting next Saturday, every weekend from 8am to 20pm the road will be closed to cars

Milan, September 15 2020 – Via Vaiano Valle will be a pedestrian street starting from next Saturday, 19 September, and for every weekend from 8 am to 20 pm. The Municipality welcomes a proposal coming from citizens' associations and from Municipality 5 which has the objective to redevelop the three kilometers of road and to preserve the area from abandonment by inserting it into a cycling route, including for tourism.

Via Vaiano Valle is a rural road that crosses the Southern Agricultural Park. Starting from next Saturday, in the period between 1st April and 31st October, for its entire length, from the junction with via dell'Assunta in the Vigentino district, near via Ripamonti, and up to the end, at the intersection with via Sant'Arialdo, near the Chiaravalle Abbey, will be accessible exclusively to pedestrians, bicycles, scooters or similar vehicles and only residents will be able to use it with motor vehicles to enter and exit their properties.

Via Vaiano Valle is part of the Vettabbia park and is inserted in one of the oldest rural areas of the city; the fields here were irrigated by water meadows and the fauna still consists of species of aquatic birds typical of marshy areas. A route that is part of the medieval Way of the Monks which develops from the Columns of San Lorenzo, in the center of Milan, towards the southern outskirts along the Vettabbia canal, up to its confluence with the Lambro river where the Cistercian monks settled. It was they who reclaimed these previously unhealthy lands and allowed the development of small inhabited centers and built the Abbeys of Chiaravalle, Viboldone and Mirasole.

While waiting for the time required to create the electrical connections that will allow for the installation of pilamats, access to via Vaiano Valle will be regulated by signs and barriers from next Saturday.