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In Cascina Campazzo you can still taste the flavor of freshly milked milk. Just insert the coins, place an eco-friendly glass bottle next to it and admire the raw milk dispensed on tap from the vending machine. It is fresh, tasty, creamy, rich in vitamins and live lactic ferments. And, of course, produced by cows raised on site (around 130).

The farmhouse is located in the heart of the Ticinello Park, whose name derives from the canal fed by the Darsena, whose waters come from the Naviglio and - upstream - from the Ticino river. In 1200 the Cistercian friars of the Abbey of Chiaravalle carried out reclamation works throughout the southern area of ​​Milan at the behest of the Torriani, Lords of Milan, who had various landholdings for agricultural use here. The ancient water network created by the monks still allows the fields to be irrigated today. Ticinello also dates back to that period.

Inside a small building, preceded by a portico, there is the ancient eighteenth-century elliptical wood-fired oven, restored and brought back into operation after seventy years of inactivity. In the past, bread was baked there, which guaranteed the self-sufficiency of the entire farm community, which at the time was made up of many families. It was also used for modeling and processing work tools: hoes and forks were made more resistant if wetted with water and dried in the oven.

The Falappi family has lived here since 1952, managing the agricultural company of the same name and producing corn, wheat and fodder. An area is cultivated with the ancient marcita method, a precious and increasingly rare stable and irrigated meadow which even in winter allows the growth of grass intended for animal feed.

From 14 August 2014 Cascina Campazzo became the property of the Municipality of Milan. In December 2015 the last batch of areas of the Ticinello Park also became public.

On January 17th of each year in Cascina Campazzo, as in many other agricultural places in the Milanese area, the tradition of the bonfire of Sant'Antonio is renewed. It is an ancient peasant rite to which the ancient proverb is linked: "for Saint Anthony, a good hour". It means that the days get longer by an hour at sunset.