Luigi Marangoni Garden

Town Hall 7
Arrival: Axum square, Don Gnocchi street
Working hours:: free access
How to Get There:: bus 49

Area: 10.506 mXNUMX.
Year of creation: 1982
Designer: Technical Office of the Municipality of Milan

What to do at the park:

  • stroll;
  • stop and relax;
  • run along the avenues;
  • multipurpose field;
  • 2 equipped play areas, one for children and one for teenagers;
  • dog area

The park in brief
The park was dedicated to the doctor and health director of the Policlinico Luigi Marangoni, killed by the Red Brigades in 1981. It is a garden, known in the past as the garden of via Val Poschiavina, very well equipped for sporting and recreational activities, where it is possible to enjoy the view of oaks, beeches, maples, cedars, cherry trees. There is the Judas tree, an ornamental plant native to the East and with hermaphroditic fuchsia flowers.

The flooring is in natural stone and limestone.

Main tree species

  • black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia 'Umbraculifera')
  • American maple (Acer negundo)
  • sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus)
  • Judas tree (Cercis siliquastrum)
  • hanging birch (Betula pendula)
  • hornbeam (Carpinus betulus)
  • Atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca')
  • Himalayan cedar (Cedrus deodara)
  • flowering cherry (Prunus cerasifera 'Pissardii')
  • beech trees (Fagus sylvatica 'Pendula' and F. sylvatica 'Purpurea')
  • ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba)
  • lagestroemia (Lagerstroemia indica)
  • liquidambar (Liquidambar styraciflua)
  • black walnut (Juglans nigra)
  • black alder (Alnus glutinosa)
  • red oak (Quercus rubra), lime (Tilia hybrida)

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Updated: 16/04/2024